She's emasculated, if I get to use that particular word. She could have been marginally diverting as a bad girl, but the filmmakers strip that away, in an appallingly literal transformation that brings her from knit caps and tightly zipped jackets to letting her surprisingly well-groomed long brown hair flow freely.
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As for Annie, who for reasons unclear has a psychic connection with Nick and develops with him a sort of highly stylized love relationship that could have been quite exceptional if the writers had only been given the good sense to think of it she goes through such a paper-thin emotional arc over the film, attempting to deepen her and show us the torments in her own life, as to be unrecognizable as anything else other than a movie character. Pete is a perfect cipher, memorable only because he fills a major role in the film's plot mechanic. His mother is an unyielding harpy until she isn't anymore, in a leaden and eminently predictable scene where GhostNick watches her break down and cry. Yet Nick is, by far, the most rounded character we have to deal with. For those of us who are not presently solipsistic emo-benighted teenagers, his behaviors are alienating and off-putting for those of us who are solipsistic and emo-benighted, those are the exact traits that forbid us from finding other human beings relatable. He is unbearably smug and entitled, yet by all appearances we are supposed to find ourselves instantly sympathetic to his situation. More importantly, there is the flaw that is Nick himself.
It is not so much that the rules seem inconsistent, as there do not seem to be rules at all. Whomever is at fault, the problems with the story are significant: first, there is the nature of Nick's condition, which changes seemingly at will, so that whatever drives the plot, that shall be his ability. That really doesn't make much difference, mind you nobody ever said that it was an adapting writer's goal to correct none of the flaws of their source material. I am totally unfamiliar with Den osynlige, the Swedish novel and film that The Invisible is based upon, so I can't say which narrative flaws are the Americans' faults, and which were intrinsic to the story as originally told.
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In fact, it's just a series of events that illustrate how Nick is much less intelligent than every single member of the audience, who will figure out virtually every beat of the story at least a few scenes before the putative hero does. Oh! But Nick is not dead, and therein lies what screenwriters Mick Davis and Christine Roum want very badly to pretend is a tale. One day, while trying to help out his incredibly tedious and personality-deficient friend Pete (Chris Marquette), he arouses the anger of the school's goth-lite tough girl, Annie (Margarita Levieva), who after a series of farcical misunderstandings, beats him to death. Here we have Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin of War of the Worlds, although to me he shall always only be the teenage girl's boyfriend in SuperBabies), a depressed wealthy high school senior whose widowed mother (Marcia Gay Harden, cashing a check like you ain't never seen her cash a check before) is an icy bitch, and whose life is frustratingly unwilling to align itself precisely according to the very carefully designed plan that he wants. with a point-of-view directed with uncompromising resolve at the protagonist's navel is bad?" Sadly, yes. The Invisible is quite probably the most dreary film I have seen all year.
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