Hope you are feeling well, and are basking in the new year of the Rooster.
Okay so Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children, you may love it or hate it but one things for sure: it absolutely is top of my book to screen films! I know that a lot of you will disagree, especially because of the way that the ages, relationships and personalities are changed but I actually think that they improved the story, although that is coming from someone who has a soft spot for movie romance.
The film is all about a young boy called Jake trying to find where his Grandpa lived in his childhood after escaping the war, and the secrets that he uncovers whilst searching around a forgotten Island off the coast of Wales. What he finds is a house stuck in time (a time loop), containing a few children who identify as peculiar from the weird quirks and powers that they have.
Every emotion is explored so deeply you can exactly feel and understand how the characters feel and you can justify in your head what they are doing and why they are. The characters are well acted and I think that the change of ages was done completely right, and the casting of the film was so well done.
I think that Tim Burton really did the books justice whilst also adding his own dash of exceptional creepy tension. The different powers and quirks were created in such a way visually that you can imagine this Island actually being real; an isolated yet misunderstood Island where special children stayed in the safety of their loop.
I really don't want to spoil what happens in the film because this is basically a whole new world that I feel is best discovered on your own. The books are amazing but quite different to the films. Ransom Riggs has to be one of the best writers I know at building suspense and incorporating those photos into the pages was really good for giving you more information about the characters and giving you a clearer idea of what the characters look like as well. He added these photos that show the way people looked, and the creepy atmosphere they give really helps the aesthetic of the whole story.
But to the negatives, there may only be a few but this should be an unbiased review so giving you my entire thought process would be a good idea. Okay so switching around the peculiarities didn't really add anything for me and I think that I might have enjoyed the film a bit more if the Emma in the film also had fire powers not air. Another small thing is that the history and past of a character is not really gone into, and I feel like if you were shown a bit more then you could show a bit more compassion about what the characters do and how they react.
I'd really love to hear about what you feel about this film. Did you love it? Or did you think that it could have been improved a bit? Let me know in the comments.
Good bye for now x
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