Freaks

Right away we are put into a dilapidated house with Emile Hirsch and his daughter, Lexy Kolker, where it has a vibe similar to a movie like Room where you feel she is being held captive by Emile. They are father and daughter though and he is protecting her from the outside world where he says people want to kill them if they go outside and you here him telling her to try and act normal. Slowly as reveals start to happen, Lexy Kolker is not an ordinary child, she has some kind of power that we are not quite sure what it is. Bruce Dern comes into the picture as a man driving an ice cream truck trying to lure her outside and I do not know about you, my mind instantly goes to creepy old man trying to kidnap little girl, wrong, its her grandfather. Venturing with her grandfather into the world it appears its not as bad as her father makes it out to be, or is it. You see she is what is referred to in this movie as a “freak” a human with superpowers, think X-Men sort of with some Brightburn and you get the gist of what’s going down, Emile Hirsch has created a time bubble to keep his daughter safe as long as he can stay awake, oh yeah, forgot to mention her mother is being held inside a mountain where they take “freaks” and she is about to be put down, except her daughter has the ability to control other people and visit other people’s environments. I understand this sounds all over the place, to talk about this movie without giving any spoilers is kind of hard, already gave a way a couple, oops my bad. Somehow though it all manages to work out and with some nifty visual effects along the way. What I liked about this was it constantly keeps unraveling itself and opening up more and more defying some predictions I had as to what was happening. If you have the time to give the movie and actually actively watch, I think you’ll be entertained. B.