Bookworm
“Bookworm is too light a film,” say its creators, and they even call it a ‘comedy-drama fable’ a film about a father and a daughter ‘in author’ in author’s words so it’s safe to assume it all feels very personal to her. Though the film has a respectable 96 minutes runtime and comes close to the trim 90 minute figure it aims for, some portions are surely excess. It’s not easy to do ‘deadpan’ in comedy and not have the whole thing feel slow. Finding that perfect rhythm between standard American cuteness and self-indulgence invites great difficulty. However, the drab overall feeling is counterbalanced by a positive childish tone which makes the characters more relatable. The driving factor for to enjoy the movie is thanks to its lead actors, Wood and Fisher, and beautiful pictures of New Zealand countryside. (Didn’t tree bearded Wood visit these mounds in his way to Mordor during the “The Lord Of The Rings”? Looks like he did.)
Mildred is one such character, a young girl who is quite wise for her age, affectionate and has traits that as a woman she shouldn’t possess such as being aggressive, so it is normal that she has all the attention, right? (“So do you know Maswell’s hierarchy of needs?” she asks). Mildred is one child who’s loved parents. Wipple quite well to be able to make movies which are now referred to as a cultural heritage.
The parent that requires a parent is Mildred’s father, Strawn, a long haired American man boy who is attempting to make a career as a magician (he prefers the appellation ‘illusionist’). He has never been around her life since she was very small but makes his way back after one of her mother’s toasters blows and puts Mrs. Funston in a comma.
The unbearable debt claims Mildred’s mother, and the girl wishes to wipe off the debts as soon her mother gets back into her senses. This plan involves getting photos of the elusive Canterbury Panther (that is not a real animal, in case you were thinking of travelling to New Zealand looking for one) and redeeming a $50,000 bounty. Mildred’s dad wants to take her camping and look for the beast with her. And there we go into a father-daughter road trip with beautiful views and charming actors who mostly seem to be not particularly loaded with any powerful emotions other than some cheer and sadness interspersed, and sometimes a strikingly beautiful but somewhat grotesque image (like a gory scene shot through the panther’s eye) with not particularly any feeling of wanting to do more than be gently entertained, which describes the bulk of the pictures. As stated before on other occasions throughout this piece “Bookworm” proves to be an outdoor urban two-character drama.
However, there’s a side storyline with a few hikers who are not what they seem and create some trouble which you know will be sorted out in favor of the main characters there is no, And this is not an, And no one involved in this is pretending so.
Toby Harvard wrote the screenplay for “Bookworm” and Ant Timpson directed the film. Timpson is no stranger to film contests as he co-founded New Zealand’s 48 Hours film challenge, and its first winner was a good looking jokester called Taika Waititi. Harvard and Timpson have previously worked with Wood on the horror-comedy film “The Greasy Strangler” It is also interesting to see the three of them collaborate on a film in such an informal dramatic mode that neither of them has used before but fully dedicates themselves to a completely unmarketable narrative and tone.
Wood’s image has been so built around his work in the original Tolkien trilogy by Peter Jackson that virtually all the other, quite often very impressive work done afterwards would be justified in being obscured. Here, he manages to add another memorable performance in his gallery. By embodying an underwhelming character that needs to find his own father figure at the right moment, he utilizes his sonorous voice and striking eyes to give life to the character. Fisher is such a commanding presence that it is impossible to doubt what this character can do, and where she is concerned, there are plenty of reasons to be. Put another way, the actress in question is a child of Roald Dahl, the sort he has written in his books imaginative, bright and indomitable. She would have been perfect as Matilda.
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