Review: In ‘We the Animals,’ Three Brothers Rush Toward Maturity

A small, uncut jewel "Our Animals" in the movie is a feature of the first story of nonfiction filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar. Therefore, there is a subordinate relationship between role and observation. Most of the semantic observations are sometimes a narrator and through the eyes of Evan Rosado, the youngest brother of three adolescent brothers among the blended blue collar family in northern New York. At one level, "our animal" is a classic story of the era, on the other hand it almost completely represents the emotional damage that economic anxiety may cause.

The boys' Puerto Rican father Paps (a wonderful Raúl Castillo known for his HBO series "Look") cried, "We will never escape." Ma (Sheila Vand), pale, beautiful, crumpled she is working in a brewery, and Paps is more adopted with minimum wages. They met as teenagers in Brooklyn and now children run wild, deeply noisy half-naked packaging that seems not to be affected by the intense debate and passionate dialogue that parents can not last long I will.

But Jonah is more sensitive to his 10 years older than his brothers and sisters (Isaiah Kristian and Josia Gabriel). And I am working hard. Escape from the fantasy world of painting (lightly animated by Mark Samsonovitch), he has a hard time dealing with a deprived, disorderly house that can range from love to fear in a matter of minutes. Trauma is never far. Usually it is a masculine petrification test in the most innocent camouflage like a simple swimming lesson. When Paps popped up, Ma, black eyes, bad lips, lying in the bed for a couple of days, their hungry children jumped into convenience stores and raid another adventure.

Mr. Zagar and Daniel Kitrosser's script based on Justin Torres's 2011 novel prioritize emotions and moments over more traditional story structures. At the same time, film director Zak Mulligan emphasized the style of the 1990s by choosing most 16 mm film. It makes its coarse rustic look and old-fashioned interior (around Utica, New York) a memorable fingerprint, a dreamlike nostalgic luster with light. As a result, a movie is more visually effective than a story, and its threads are so woven that they almost disappear.

However, what remains unchanged is a freely floating anxiety that closely links boys (all non-professional actors) as if sharing a single skin. But under that skin Jonah was slowly drawn to the cellar of the neighbor and left slowly and a lazy, dragging young quietly remembered pornographic porn videos. For the children, both the image and the men's commitment to them can be understood, but his desire to return to a narrow, declining space is negligibly strong.

Fragile and flexible "our animal" has a very cute character that uses air, water, and deep and damp soil to create a world that is big change, small, sometimes symbolic, dreamy I will. How it happens Jonah is caught up in this dilemma, confused by the behavior of adults and the first sexual behavior that he eventually cut off from his brother. Their adulthood suddenly does not look like himself.

From time to time, due to mutations or scientists injecting iodine, cockroaches may be forced to leave safe water. Shooting causes the animals to produce hormones that cause sudden maturation (in humans this is called "being driven out of the parents' cellars). They are surprisingly similar to their immediate family, but they continue breeding by themselves. Although it is unusual for amphibian regeneration, it will take it to a new level. In addition to being able to regenerate limbs, animals can rebuild even their brains without their jaws, spine, and even scarring. Professor Ste phane Roy of the University of Montreal explains American scientists as follows.

Our animal (2011) is the first novel by an American writer Justin Torres. This is a growing novel about three barbarous brothers of Caucasians and Puerto Rico's parents who had a difficult childhood in rural areas in the northern part of New York in the 1980s. The youngest brother as the hero finally came out from another family. As the narrator grew, he felt the difference between himself and his brother. His parents beat down his parents and brothers after discovering that his magazine is full of erotic imagination and fantasies and he took him to a mental hospital where he lost contact with his family I got it.