Disappointing then, that the movie introduces such an extraordinary living being and focuses mostly on those around her. It also provided few insights into the child, but then Ricky was mentally as young as his age, and the ending was gratifyingly ambiguous. Another recent film, “Ricky,” was about the French parents of a child who could fly. The film, alas, stays resolutely concerned with human problems. Does it reflect her true nature? How does she feel about being locked in the barn? Does she “misbehave,” or is that her nature? Her “parents” relate mostly to her memetic behavior. The movie stays resolutely outside, viewing her as a distant creature. What does she think? What does she feel? There has never been another life form like her. I wish Dren’s persona had been more fully developed. It deals with the divide between hard science and marketable science. It opens the controversy over the claims of some corporations to patent the genes of life. It questions what “human” means, and suggests it’s defined more by mind than body. She doesn’t look quite human, but as she grows to teenage size she could possibly be the offspring of Jake and Neytiri, although not blue.īrody and Polley are smart actors, and the director, Vincenzo Natali, is smart, too do you remember his “The Cube” (1997), with subjects trapped in a nightmarish experimental maze? This film, written by Natali with Antoinette Terry Bryant and Douglas Taylor, has the beginnings of a lot of ideas, including the love that observably exists between humans and some animals. She also evolves more attractive features, based on the Spielberg discovery in “E.T.” that wide-set eyes are attractive. They lock her in the barn, which seems harsh treatment for the most important achievement of modern biological science.ĭren is all special effects in early scenes, and then quickly grows into a form played by Abigail Chu when small and Delphine Chaneac when larger. This feeling doesn’t extend so far as to allow her to live with them in the house. The researchers keep Dren a secret, both because they ignored orders by creating her, and because, though Elsa didn’t want children, they begin to feel like Dren’s parents.
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