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The Glass Castle By Justin Daniel Cretton

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“The Glass Castle” is a biography, drama written by Destin Daniel Cretton; it portrays a young girl (Jeanette Walls) and her family as they struggle in poverty stricken towns with a mother who is an eccentric artist and her alcoholic father who she blindly puts her faith in. The film was released on August 11, 2017 and features Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts among others. The big question, “What do I think about “The Glass Castle” film? The film was dissatisfying overall, I did not feel same emotional attachment that I felt with the book. They did not show enough of Jeanette and Rex’s connection to each other. It seems to only portray the bad events of their childhood, and mostly portraying Rex as a villain. They did not show …show more content…

In the book Jeanette had learned to swim in a sulfur spring and Rex had used his “sink or swim” method, eventually Jeanette learned to swim by getting out of Rex’s reach. In the movie, the family was at a swimming pool where Rex was drunk and ended up fighting the pool owner and causes the Walls to leave town. Rex tells Jeanette, “Sink or swim,” Jeanette learns to swim in the sulfur spring because she swims out of Rex’s reach who continues to push her in. There is a dark, troublesome mood, because Rex does not handle his liquor well and he is in a public setting and commits an act that could cause him to go to jail. It was a constant reoccurring theme of trouble following the family wherever they had gone. The film shows Jeanette thinking Rex is going to drown her because he was drunk. In the book Jeanette mentions, “Once I got my breath back, I figured he must be right;” Rex tells Jeanette, “If you do not want to sink, you better figure out how to swim.” The scene portrayed Jeanette as nervous and timid, while Rex was drunk and loud, unlike in the book where Rex was unusually calm. To wrap it up, the book and film depict two different settings, but their origin is all the

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