What’s uncomfortable on the page becomes downright cringey on screen.
The film understandably organizes itself around the Kya/Chase/Tate love triangle, which is more cinematic than the triangle that drives the novel: Kya/Nature/Humanity. The movie, being a movie, succumbs to the human desire to see a glamorized version of the world onscreen.
For someone who hides like a timorous fawn whenever visitors come around, the movie’s Kya is as well turned out as a heroine in aOne of the novel’s weakest aspects is its handling of race, and Newman and screenwriter Lucy Alibar have wisely trimmed back Owens’ clumsy attempts to draw parallels between Jumpin’ and Mabel’s position in the community and Kya’s.
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