A coming-of-age adventure in a world separate from ours, without constant pop-culture reference points. Our Riddle of Fire review:
Life for today’s young’uns is frankly terrifying, even if they aren’t literally living inside a horror film, with overarching threats to their future dotted by day-to-day micro-threats. In its unassuming way as real-world fantasy, Weston Razooli’sis sensitive to these plights, and casually rejects didactic allegory about them. This, Razooli suggests, is simply a film about childhood’s rigors. Coming of age is a hero’s quest no matter how terrible its sociopolitical context may be.
But Razooli believes in magic where Richard Donner believes in structuring a whole damn picture around nods to Merian C. Cooper, Mel Brooks, Jim Sharman, and a host of other, better filmmakers.exist. Razooli has cut his story off from pop culture, left the characters and the narrative deprived of opportunity to wink and nudge at the movies that rank among his inspirations. What results from that isolation is pure and true.
What mishaps and hijinks and near-misses ensue as the trio pursue their mission can be shuffled under the categories of “adventure” and “magical realism,” with magic enjoying increasing occupation as Razooli’s plot ambles along.has a destination in mind, and shrugs off any urgency to get there; Julie wants that pie, but she’s also conked out, sick in bed, so she can wait. Kindly, blamelessly, the film installs Julie as its symbol of sympathetic absentee parenting.
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