![]() When Theo's long-lost drunken shyster father (Luke Wilson) shows up with his equally smarmy girlfriend Xandra (Sarah Paulson), they head to the recession-riddled suburbs of Las Vegas. ![]() In fact, it's these parallels and near-mirror-images are what make the story so unique and interesting. In the first of many parallels separated by time, we learn Fabritius was killed (and most of his work destroyed) in an explosion. The painting is "The Goldfinch" by Rembrandt's pupil Carel Fabritius. Theo proceeds to hide the artwork as the family of one of his schoolmates takes him in. An encounter with an injured stranger causes Theo to take a painting and flee the museum. ![]() 13 year old Theo (Oakes Fegley) is visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art with his mother when a bomb explodes leaving Theo dazed in the rubble and his mother dead. What to include and what to omit surely generated many discussions between director John Crowley (the excellent BROOKLYN, 2015) and screenwriter Peter Straughan (Oscar nominated for the fantastic TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, 2011). With a run time of two-and-a-half hours, that may seem like a ludicrous question, but Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize (fiction) winning 2013 novel was almost 800 pages long, covering many characters and spanning more than a decade. The challenge after watching this movie is deciding whether it needed more time or less. ![]()
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