For too lengthy, little children have been denied the pleasure of witnessing, appreciating, and understanding the existential despair that comes from watching a Charlie Kaufman film. Now not! Kaufman’s newest screenplay is an existential meditation on mortality for the entire household — the animated film Orion and the Darkish, which is coming quickly to Netflix.
Based mostly on the e book by Emma Yarlett, the film stars Jacob Tremblay and Paul Walter Hauser as the 2 title characters, who function in a narrative (for youths!) about one of Kaufman’s favourite preoccupations, particularly studying to dwell with nervousness.
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Kaufman has labored in animation earlier than; he wrote and co-directed Anomalisa in 2015. However that was a stop-motion movie that was positively supposed for a mature viewers. (It contains a stop-motion puppet intercourse scene, for instance.) That is, like a Charlie Kaufman children film. After that watch it, you may allow them to go straight into Being John Malkovich as a double function. They’ll love that.
Right here is the movie’s official synopsis:
Orion appears lots like your common elementary faculty child –– shy, unassuming, harboring a secret crush. However beneath his seemingly regular exterior, Orion is a ball of adolescent nervousness, utterly consumed by irrational fears of bees, canine, the ocean, cellphone waves, murderous gutter clowns, even falling off a cliff. However of all his fears, the factor he’s essentially the most afraid of is what he confronts on a nightly foundation: the darkish. So when the literal embodiment of his worst worry pays a go to, Darkish whisks Orion away on a curler coaster journey world wide to show there may be nothing to be afraid of within the night time. Because the unlikely pair develop nearer, Orion should resolve if he can study to simply accept the unknown –– to cease letting worry management his life and eventually embrace the enjoyment of residing.
Orion and the Darkish premieres on Netflix on February 2.
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