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The love for science: The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
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Something that defines the cinema of Jean Pierre Jeunet, the director of Amelie, Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children among other films, is that he knows how to create very personal worlds. While Amelie had a romantic and innocent imagination, TS Spivet has a scientific and orderly mind. Jeunet also achieves a remarkable wide range of attractive colors as the result of a great photographic technique. This peculiar and unique style has made him have his detractors and his defenders.
T.S. Spivet is a 10-year-old boy with a talent for cartography and for scientific inventions, who lives on an isolated ranch in scientific the state of Montana, USA. His mother, a specialist in strange bugs, does not convey him the affection her child needs. His father, a real cowboy, has a penchant for a dead son and his 14-year-old sister who only dreams of becoming Miss America, does not care of him. So, T. S. Spivet takes refuge in his scientific world, fleeing the lack of love from his family and the guilt he feels for the death of his brother. One day, he receives an unexpected call telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious scientific Baird prize. Without telling anyone, he sets out across the U.S.A. to pick it up. Along the way he will encounter different characters that will help him in this initiation journey. Mostly through a voice-over, the film gives us deeper information on the child and his family. A display of colors and landscapes accompany Jeunet's style.
Based on the novel by Reif Larsen, this moving story tells us about the love for science, family relationships and the efforts to make dreams come true. Combining dramatic moments with some touches of humour, the director has lacked time enough to resolve effectively some situations without falling in glib sensitivity at the final scenes.
Texts: Núria Farré. facebook@cinemaperaestudiants.cat
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