The Thing with Feathers 2025 by AverageMansReviews

 The Thing with Feathers 2025 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/animal cruelty/animal biting/cutting/bodily functions/medical/cancer/reference to cancer

A family in mourning: briefly; we meet this family unit just after they have said goodbye to they were of one; Dad [Benedict Cumberbatch:] he is a graphic novelist writer and artist, which is currently working on a graphic novel which is going to be published when he has completed, he also has two sons to look after Boy 1 and Boy 2 [Younger: Charlie Harman/Older: Richard Boxall and Younger: Freddie Kirby/Older: Henry Boxall:] they are not bad kids, they are just handful from time to time. But it isn't too long before their dad at first is having psychological issues manifested by psychological issues/grief, which manifests this Crow/The Demon [Physically: Eric Lampaert/Voiced by: David Thewlis:] he is here to keep the dad company and do his best work and he might spread to the children if he does his best work.

Generally speaking: the framework has an outlay of a theatre production; this film has been sectioned off into all of the key characters and we start off with Dad, with simultaneously the pacing to create this atmospheric approach of a sense of realism/real-life for this 98 minutes of filming: this film is not an easy watch, but excellent framework and pacing.

Character developments, art, comedy action, performances and voice performances; now all of these components are individually strong, but altogether incredibly powerful; as the Dad will quickly understand the more you allow grief/mental health to feed, the more stronger it will become, so to begin with this Crow/Demon doing little bits and pieces like being in his head, voices and sounds followed by this gigantic Crow/Demon, which has been fantastically designed to be gigantic and authentic as a Crow [the smaller version of this Crow is excellent as well] and we also have some other out there alternative artistic flair and illustrations.

I should point out the comedy is well I shouldn't have to say this but I will anyway of a dark nature, to the point where the person I watch some of this content with and I were the only ones laughing, because we have both many years individually or together dealing with mental health issues, so how can put this nicely?... Once you have been touched by genuine mental health issues, if you didn't have a weird sense of humour before which I did, I definitely hear now. But when you have the Crow/Demon mocking the Dad, hey what can I say... The Crow/Demon is now and again a funny creature and for the action; I literally can't on too much about it, because the Crow/Demon is fighting with or something and it was entertaining stuff, you just couldn't see too much of what it was, you knew it of similar size and incredibly aggressive, but I would be making myself look like a fool if I had to guess.

Everyone I have alluded to in the basics storyline section of this content put in excellently powerful performances or they became the physical Crow perfectly; everyone just understood the seriousness of the material and made it come to life; the integration of the Crow/Demon verbally or/and physically is/was vitally important. Because if this family doesn't treat this manifestation as real with 100% certainty; this entire concept/film doesn't work, simply put if they don't take it as genuine how is your audience meant to? But there is excellent free-flowing chemistry from everyone involved be it physically or/and verbally and for those that I haven't mentioned they all put in good performances as well.

This film receives: 9/10, this film is excellent; straight off the bat I decided to award an extra mark; it is a really raw project about a mourning death of a loved one for all concerned as it relates to this family, but simultaneously it also shows the foundation level of mental health, so if you needed a visual representation of what living with mental health looks like, this film will show you. But having said all this; this film does have some negatives; which I am not best pleased either one, why am I seeing projects be it film or/and TV programs, why is it now acceptable and cheap to rely on cancer as something to generate hard-hitting character development, don't get me wrong it is hard-hitting, but someone that has experienced of a cancer situation and I am speaking also for the person that had cancer, we are far from happy that this in now we go to subject. Because we go to the cinema or watch TV programs to put cancer on the back burner, including the relentless usage of adverts involving cancer and on top of this; why didn't anyone emotionally protect the children? Minus the friend and teacher none of his family actually provides a protective filter for these two children. Okay it is acceptable for children to feel some form of loss depending on their age ranges is depending on how you deal with it, but not the full whack of loss considering this two children are not even 10 years old, they don't have the skills yet to filter anything, so I am angry by this, because I myself was one of those children the was put in a position where I didn't have these filters and I can tell you no child should be put in a position that they just have the skills to protect themselves.

I find it an absolute joke that as things stand this film has at worst 50% or 56% approval on rating websites and at best 6.4/10, when the now all I will say if it was a mother instead of a father that was in this position these ratings would be strongly positive or glowing so much so everyone would be concerned the instant impact of this movie onto the global warming/climate change, but as it is a man it makes as much sound as a fart in a thunderstorm. This film has some awards accredited to its name 3 Nominees which include but not limited to British Independent Film Awards 2025 British Independent Film Award Best Effects Conor O'Sullivan Martin Malmqvist Hayley J. Williams