The book explains what a tesseract is and why their father is in danger, having tessered onto a hostile planet. Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace are invited to go on an adventure by fantastic beings to save Meg and Charles Wallace’s father. Granted, the book does make for some difficult subject matter to translate to the silver screen, but it shouldn’t have been this difficult. When I finally got to see A Wrinkle in Time, I understood why. I avoided reading any reviews about the film before seeing it because I didn’t want anything to color my viewing of the movie, but I did see it wasn’t getting a lot of love. I think the child actors really nailed their parts and could not have asked for a better Meg or Calvin (Levi Miller). I loved that they cast Meg as a girl of color, and I really respect DuVernay’s vision of a more diverse cast than the book originally had. The screen positively lit up with brilliant color and vivid imagery in key scenes, bringing to life parts of the book that I’d always imagined, like the scene with all the children bouncing their red balls in unison. A Wrinkle in Time deserved the full Hollywood movie treatment, and it got exactly that. I adore the books, and they made a significant mark on me in my childhood, so my hopes were high. I have to admit to being a little disappointed by the film.
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