Review of The Glass Castle (2017) by Avmon — 21 Oct 2022

Many movies have a "black-white"/"either white or black" narrative thread, being very clear what is good, what is bad, what you should feel, etc...

Unlike these movies, The Glass Castle manages to capture the true complexity of life, a continuous oscillation among its shades of gray, and in the end I didn't really know how to feel about the events that took place in the film.

The movie tends to seem "flat", like a song whose chorus never comes, although it is not boring at all, and the ending is worth the wait.

Woody Harrelson is the perfect actor for this role. He tends to play a similar character in several movies, a controversial character, hard to fit into current social norms, but a character that is neither bad nor good and therefore makes you like and dislike the character in the same time. It is a role that he plays and it suits him perfectly. (ex: The Drunk from The Hunger Games, The Controversial Husband from True Detective, etc.).

I am not a big fan of Brie Larson, but she did a good job in this movie.