Film of the year?

Rating: 10/10 (21 October 2016)

Well its January 20th and the games already up. My favourite film of the year has already been watched. At least if it hasn't then this is really going to be a banner year. This is an incredible film with fantastic performances from the 2 leads. Brie Larson is, as is always the case, excellent, but is blown away by an unbelievable performance from young Jacob Tremblay. It can only be because of his tender years that he didn't receive Oscar recognition as I don't believe we will see a better performance this year. Of course a lot of the credit for this must go down to fantastic direction from Abrahamson. As for the film, it is abhorrent, terrifying, warm, emotional, uplifting and life affirming, and not necessarily in that order. Your emotions change from one way to another many times throughout the run time. The genius of the film is that it shows the world from the child's perspective, after watching imagine how it would have looked if it had been showed from the mothers and shiver.