“Marvelous and the Black Hole” – Fall in [MOVIE REVIEW]
Miya Cech as Sammy in “Marvelous and the Black Hole.” Photo courtesy of Film Rise. “Marvelous and the Black Hole,” written and directed by Kate Tsang, proves the point that you don’t have to be original to be good. Tsang’s film trods the well-worn path of teenage angst with a predictable storyline and an ending that is preordained but still gives us a film worth watching for the audience for which it was intended. Perhaps it’s because the film is close to her own origin story, or perhaps it’s because the well of teenage anger is so deep, but in any case the story of Sammy Ko’s loss still resonates. Sammy has been acting out in school. When we first meet her, waiting for her father Angus in the principal’s office, she has a giant shiner, the result of a fist fight at school. Her behavior and her grades have been going downhill since the loss of her mother and now that slide is precipitous because her father has introduced his new girlfriend Marianne into the family trio that includes Sammy’s sister Patricia. Angus has given Sammy a choice — a summer school business class or exile to a summer camp for juvenile delinquents. Something of a Hobson’s Choice (that’s a kind of no-win…
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