The starling is a movie that talks about your mental health and suffering after you lose someone in your life.
Netflix original just released a movie on 24th September called “The Starling ”.
A film Directed by Benjamin Wallfisch written by Matt Harris starring Melissa McCarty as Lilly Maynard, Chris O’Dowd as Jack Maynard and Kevin Kline as Larry.
This film talks about the trauma, suffering that a couple goes through after the sudden death of their only daughter.
Lilly and Jack are a couple, and they just lost their daughter Katie a year ago. Lilly has been trying to do her best not to feel emotionally unstable.
She is doing whatever she can do to support her husband and find a way out of this pain of losing her child by making herself busy in doing all the work.
But what she’s hiding is her pain that comes out in the form of anger and not so funny jokes that she tells.
However, we see Jack is not as strong as Lilly. He has the guilt inside him that’s stopping him from moving forward in life, and that guilt also affects their relationship and marriage. So he admits himself to a hospital.
On the other hand, even though Lilly is trying to be vital, her husband’s situation makes her angrier and frustrated day by day; no matter what she does or says, Jack shows no sign of improvement.
That’s where she comes across an ex-therapist, Larry, who no longer gives therapy and runs an animal clinic.
At the start, he refuses to help her get through this, but on a random day, Lilly comes to him with a bruise on her head and tells him about a bird that’s been aggressively attacking her when she goes to her front yard.
As Lilly struggles with anxiety and anger, the ex-therapist finds her helpless and tries therapy.
So, the movie’s ending is good as it should be. The main concern here was that the topic of the film was very intense.
The thought of losing someone is worst, and in the movie, the director has shown us all.
The characters’ acting is appreciable, not just in direction but also in the drama; You can feel every emotion the character shows us.
As I said, the movie’s topic was very intense, so you can’t add a lot of humour to engage the audience, but the director did a great job by looking at small details.
The other emotions were so high and on the point that I don’t think the movie needed any kind of humour to engage the audience.
The best things about the movie were the storyline, direction and acting.
Also, the reference of a bird that the film gave us, like how the starling cannot live alone and always needs a partner but is also strong enough to battle on its own, which makes it strong and help it to survive in this cruel world.
The life of The Starling is compared here with human life.
Conclusion
The movie is of 1 hour and 43 minutes. However, we feel the ending of the film could have been better.
The movie seems to lack some entertainment as you can just watch the film for one time.
But the film does not have anything that leaves a mark on us that a movie should.
The movie is available on Netflix.
