Finnish writer-director Hanna Bergholm makes her function debut with this weird and richly designed body-horror-satire about household dysfunction, physique picture and consuming problems. It’s a film which borrows a bit from others – mainly Spielberg’s ET – however there's something brashly distinctive right here as nicely.
We begin with an Instagrammably picture-perfect household of ineffable blondness. Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a shy tweenager who's a gymnastics competitor. Possibly there are movies the place gymnastics are usually not a metaphor for distress and self-harm however this isn’t considered one of them. Tinja has a cheery dad (Jani Volanen) who's a little bit of a beta-male chump in his shorts and his sweater tied round his neck, and she or he has a brattish child brother, Matias (OIva Ollila). However she is being pushed tremendous onerous by her icily bold mom (Sophia Heikkilä), who has a scar on her leg hinting at her personal pissed off gymnastic ambitions. And Tinja’s mum additionally imperiously shoots a each day vlog about her too-good-to-be-true household, entitled Beautiful On a regular basis Life. (Bergholm should certainly have thought-about that as a title for her movie.)
The horror begins when Tinja steals an egg laid by a sinister black chicken and the egg hatches right into a nightmarish creature which turns into Tinja’s secret pet, slowly morphing right into a Mr Hyde model of her known as Alli. This hatching coincides with, and can be one way or the other psychically attributable to, a household disaster: Tinja has by accident chanced throughout her mom kissing the good-looking handyman Tero (Reino Nordin) and her mom, removed from denying it, privately asks Tinja to maintain this a secret from her father. However Tero is not any mere 2D toyboy: he's a delicate, clever man, a widower with a child and is a really believable stepfather, particularly as Tinja’s mom is overtly, dreamily speaking about being in love with him.
Maybe there is part of Tinja which feels that being made complicit in all it is a sort of abuse. Definitely she will hardly course of this horrible upheaval concurrently she is getting ready for her demanding championships: Alli is the image of her violent breakdown, her personal hatching into her mom’s grownup world of secrets and techniques, delusions and lies. An elegantly horrible coming-of-age.
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