The film’s title refers to an ongoing science experiment Matilda keeps in her bedroom. The light struggles to touch this home, but it does. So instead, she settles for taking care of an octogenarian woman whose daughter is away on business all the time. Beatrice dreams of opening a nice tea shop but has her excitement dashed by the slightest bump in the road.
Their house was a lovely Victorian, now dilapidated and crumbling as the neighborhood around them slides into poverty. Matilda has a bright future in the sciences but goes mostly unnoticed in her own home.
Matilda (Nell Potter) is introspective and passionately interested in botany, inspired by her favorite teacher. Ruth (Roberta Wallach) is the older girl, interested in boys and growing increasingly tired of her mother’s aimless ranting while relying on the family’s help during her nightly epilepsy attacks. It’s enough to make you grow to hate the world.īeatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) is a middle-aged widow raising two adolescent daughters. The increase in public outbursts is another sign of people losing their minds over inconveniences because that’s the only thing they demand out of life, that their treats be easy to access. The callous way so many want to “return to normal” while COVID-19 is still a threat to health, those with disabilities and autoimmune issues are ignored. That number grows in times like these, as people increase the rate of everyday cruelty. However, there are always some, the ones with the most cruelty visited upon them that they can’t get past it, that remain sunk in the mire of human development. Most people learn how to conform and gel with the group so that every chugs along without a hitch. School is one institution that does much of the beating in conjunction with your parents and the Church. It begins when you are a child, as your natural inclinations towards curiosity and play are effectively beaten out of you on all fronts. The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)Īmericans are haunted by their alienation.
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