A Monster Call: Beautiful and Sad Drama

Since then the monster appears every night at 12:07, to tell him 3 stories (one per day) that will make him reflect on his life and what he should do, however, after the stories told by the monster Connor must say the truth that only he knows. Although initially the child takes the monster as an escape from reality and is filled with hope believing that the tree could help his mother and save her, the same monster tells him that it is not so and that he is there to help him overcome his fears and save him.

For the first story, the monster insists the child tell him stories about kings and witches, which are represented in animated segments, with a moral that the same monster at the end of the story indicates: "Life is complicated." In the second story he tells about a parish priest and an apothecary where at the end of the story the tree involves the child to the destruction of the parish priest's house within his imagination although he really destroyed his grandmother's study.

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After the third story (The Invisible Man), the child is filled with courage in school and beats Harry, a child who constantly misses him at school. By that time the child begins to accept his life and his events with his mother.

Finally the time comes for the fourth story this time told by Connor, a clear story that does not show his mother reaching where the tree is and the whole ground begins to collapse creating a vacuum, Connor without any fear of danger runs to save her before that her mother succumbs to emptiness, beyond the arduous attempt to save her and hold her hanging with her hand so that she does not fall, is what ends up happening.

What this story shows us is Connor's inability to leave his mother, even knowing that he cannot do anything to save her. While Connor held his mother, the tree insisted that he will tell the truth, this would save the child who would not fall into the void if not. Where he finally accepts that he wanted everything to end, a very important phrase because it is not about his death or suicide, but the pain he felt from having to let his mother go.

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After the stories and having accepted the reality Connor is taken by his grandmother to the hospital where his mother is very sensitive to say goodbye to her, just at 12:07 her mother dies ..

Personal Analysis

Although death is something inherent in life, it was a great job that of Bayonne that without mercy destroys our feelings, showing us that in life things happen against which sometimes we cannot fight and what we have left is only to accept it and move on.

One thing to highlight is that his mother wanted to study arts, but could not because at that time she got pregnant, however it is the one that teaches Connor to express his feelings with the drawings and in the end before he dies he looks at the window as if could also see the representation of the monster...

A film where more than one will be filled with tears, as they have said is a beautiful sad story.

Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/258230-a-monster-calls

Critic: AAA