Review: The Home of Peculiar Children

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The Home of Peculiar Children, shortened book title Miss. Orphanage Peregrine for Peculiar Children, on which the feature was based, has a plot so different that it practically screamed for Tim Burton. And so it was done, this week the film directed by him opens in theaters.

Lately, the director has awakened a relationship of love and hate, alternating between good works and others of somewhat questionable quality. In The Home of Peculiar Children, Burton found himself again and managed to put all his essence in the film, but lost the Ransom Riggs. The point is that Riggs' original story is so peculiar (with the pardon of the pun) that it gave Burton's mind to roam freely, which he did, without fear of drastically changing the original plot.

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Not that this is a problem, in reality the transformation of The Home of Peculiar Children in something really aimed at children and adolescents, with the typical setting of everything that Tim Burton's finger touches, it fit very well, making the film great for the audience, but with great chances of displeasing fans of the book.

The plot presents us Jake (Asa Butterfield) an ordinary boy who, after his grandfather's death, decides to find out if the orphanage where his stories were set is real. There, he discovers several children with different powers, called peculiarities, protected by the tough, but kind, Miss Peregrine (Eva Green).

resenha-o-lar-das-criancas-peculiaresThe problem starts when Barron (Samuel L. Jackson), a peculiar one who created the monsters called Ethereal in an unsuccessful experience, he begins to pursue the peculiar “good”. In the film, the ethereal need to feed on the children's eyes to transform themselves back into humans, a detail created by Burton (and his obsession with eyes), because in the book they feed on the children themselves. The interesting thing is that this change greatly eased the attacks, leaving them to be watched by children.

o-lar-das-criancas-peculiares-eva-greenThe incredible cast chosen for the feature works very well, at least in the main part. Eva Green, who is always perfect in her roles, repeats her perfection delivering a balanced and loving Miss Peregrine, but with a lot of determination. Asa Butterfield shows that, although grown, he did not lose his youthful grace and acts perfectly as the displaced boy. Of course, Samuel L. Jackson is more than incredible as a sarcastic villain.

Children, however, leave the impression that they were underdeveloped. Unlike the original work, which focuses only on a group formed by them, the script chose to show them all, always together, and it worked very well, but it lacked to portray the grief of everything they went through and how it made them incredibly united.

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In short, The Home of Peculiar Children it has many changes, but most with a purpose and fits very well in this universe created by Tim Burton. Some are made to give a comical tone (there are many funny moments), others to make some parts of the book less boring, and all end up being quite harmonious. Rescuing the good times of the director, the film is great fun, with enough fantasy to leave even the most skeptical of adults believing in these peculiar children.

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