Gifted

On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, I went to see the movie Gifted, featuring Chris Evans.  The movie is about Octavia Spencer.

The movie is about Mary Adler, a six-year old gifted child, who has a natural gift for mathematics.  However, we discover as the movie goes along the darker secrets from the past...  For example, that Chris Evans is not her father, but uncle...  And that Mary's mother has passed away...  But was also a mathematics genius.  We also learn of her grandmother, who's also a mathematician.  However, her career was put on hold since she got married and had children.

Chris Evans' character, Frank Adler, is raising Mary the way he believed that her sister would have wanted her daughter raised.  However, it becomes a custody battle because Mary's grandmother, Evelyn, has other plans.

How does the movie end?  You'll have to watch it to find out!

Your Name

On Tuesday, April 11, 2017, I also saw the movie Your Name, which is a Japanese anime movie about two high school students who switch bodies when they fall asleep.  Of course, it starts off as a funny coincidence of things, but as the story develops, we realize that there is a whole layer of deeper story line.  Towards the end, it got a little difficult to watch, but it was nice to sit through and see the twists and turns of the story.  This movie reminded me a bit of The Lake House with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves.

The Zookeeper's Wife

On Tuesday, April 11, 2017, I went to see the movie The Zookeeper's Wife, featuring Jessica Chastain.

This movie is based on a real story of Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who ran the Warsaw Zoo before the German occupation (World War II) of 1939.  They housed Jewish refugees at their zoo and found them safehouses.

It was a Holocaust movie, and even though the history is the same, and sometimes the approaches to these films are similar, this movie talked about the local fighters that fought against German troops, which is a fact that is glossed over.  Of course, a movie like this is always difficult to watch.

But it was well done.