'White Bird in a Blizzard': The Most Crucial Year in a Teenager's Life
After carrying the mediocre smash "Divergent", Shailene Woodley is not uplifting another teen thriller, "White Bird in a Blizzard" that tells the story of Kat, an emotionally checkout out 17-year-old who drinks and hangs out with her friends (Mark Indelicato and Gabourney Sidibe.) Kat wants to have even more sex with her spiky-haired boyfriend who also keeps on blowing her off. Then one day, Eva Green, her mother just disappeared without leaving any trace.
As a detached teenager, the disappearance of her mother doesn't really bother Kat. Occasionally, she will have some strange dreams involving her mother, but she just move on and not thinking anything about it. However, as time passes, Kat's walls are starting to break down and she'll need to confront her pain instead of ignoring it.
In the "White Bird in a Blizzard", Shailene Woodley's character is a rebel who loves exploring sex. She is a youth who focuses on shaking things up.
The defiantly independent streak of Woodley makes his even more suitable for the role. The film director Gregg Araki has been known for his daring determination and singular vision to confront taboos. His very popular film remains "Mysterious Skin" that starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt that played the role of an abused teen prostitute.
In the "White Bird in a Blizzard", film, Woodley plays the role of a high school senior whose depressed and bitter mother disappears in 1988. Christopher Meloni, Kat's father does not have any lead, so Kat turns to his boyfriend, Thomas Jane who is a middle-aged detective handling the case.
Since there are no any clue to be pursued regarding the disappearance of Eve, the only real point of interest now is the emotional and psychological state of Kat, which is partially addressed in the dully presented and drearily straightforward scenes between Angela Bassett and Kat.
As crucial as anything to the movie's effectiveness are actually the visuals. The setting of the film has been deliberately shifted to the late 1980s to allow the inclusion of many musical favorites of the period that enliven the movie soundtrack throughout.
