#I am a leaf on the wind movie#
In the early going, Whedon tries a little too hard to have his movie be all things to all viewers. Despite the danger in smuggling this human cargo, the ship’s captain, Malcolm Reynolds, has kept her protected, motivated in part by a personal grudge against the ruling powers nursed since he fought on the losing side in a failed revolution.Īnd that’s just the start of the complexities that need to be wrestled to the movie theater floor. She was brought aboard by her doctor brother, Simon, who was trying to keep her away from the intergalactic government officials who wrought the damage to her psyche through experimentation meant to transform her inherent brilliance into something that would come in handy on a battlefield. After all, the first half has a lot of work to do, reestablishing the scruffy crew of the starship Serenity, most crucially for purposes of the storyline, the disturbed teenager River Tam. It’s a hit-or-miss first half blessed by a slam-bang second half.
#I am a leaf on the wind full#
This dulls some of the most effective themes of the TV series (most notably, the sense that the universe is full of people that the powers-that-progress have specifically chosen to leave behind) but may prove to help the accessibility of a film already hindered by a cast of characters well-established to longtime fans, but sometimes hastily sketched in to the confines of this two-hour movie.īut now…that’s enough of a review of the wisdom of making this film, what about the film itself. Newcomers who buy their tickets to Serenity will, I suspect, be perplexed.įor one thing, it takes a bit to get used to this genre hybrid, although Whedon has significantly toned down the Western trappings, opting for a more clear science fiction feel. In bringing his cancelled TV space western Firefly into theatres with what amounts to triple-sized series-finale-that-never-was, Whedon is presenting a new glimpse at a fictional ‘verse that I know very well. I am quite ill-suited to provide an honest assessment of the big-screen directorial debut of the small-screen storytelling master Joss Whedon. I'll get to the films we saw through the week, but here's the long-awaited cinematic offering that kicked it off on Friday. We've seen six films in the past two days with only the occasional break to do grown-up things like buy tiles and, well, I guess that's the only real grown-up thing we did. There's all sort of reasons and motivations, but it really boiled down to the fact that late-September/early-October tends to be our first chance to settle in undisturbed for a weekend after the academic year gets rolling. We spent this weekend with our second-annual self-programmed film festival.
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