Sunday, November 8, 2009

Orphan

Yesterday I watched Orphan expecting a typical creepy child movie, which is a genre of film that I love no matter how bad they are. Creepy children and crazy stalker movies are kind of my guilty pleasures. To my surprise, this film was so much more. It was creepy and atmospheric with some great production design and cinematography, intelligently written with actual character development, and beautifully acted, especially by Isabel Furman as Esther (who deserves on Oscar nod) and actual real-life deaf child actress Aryana Engineer (Seriously the cutest kid I've ever seen). There were so many WTF moments in this movie. I was on edge the whole time. The writers really brought something different to this genre of film.

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