Sometimes reality is good for the spirit. And it often becomes the starting point for a film. “Taken from a true story” is often an abused slogan, but in many cases it is real and works.
This is the case of The crystal child by Jon Gunndirector specialized in events from edifying themes and religious shades. It focuses on the daily life of a special family. He knows her in a shop where he does the saleswoman. They come out together, they fall in love, children are born. One of them is autistic, and has a rare disease (imperfect osteogenesis, a genetic disease that causes its particularly fragile bones to break for a nonnnula) which makes it more fragile than others.
It is the beginning of a complex path, to which the couple must dedicate itself almost completely. But he is a man too dedicated to the bottle.
The crystal child It expresses good feelings and enhances the value of the family, especially when life tests. With love, even the highest mountains are climbed, and the hardest challenges face each other. And even the disability, in its broadest ccetion, can become an opportunity for cerskita for everyone, in particular for those who have no one.
Jon Gunn finds the right measure, relies on universal content, and inserts a lot of irony to lighten a heartbreaking affair. It underlines the interpretation of Zachary Levy, an actor over one meter and ninety tall and known as the comic superhero of Shazam!: really moving.
In theaters from Thursday 27 March.
The crystal child
Directed by Jon Gunn, with Zachary Levi, Meghann Fahy, Jacob Laval, Patricia Heaton, Drew Powell.
