Even the heroine's mother gaslights her, though of course without meaning to Lynskey plays her as a woman who only wants what's best for her children, based on her own understanding of reality.Ĭarmody is, in fact, a very bad man. Carmody is an affable fellow, and Spall plays him in a way that keeps both Laura and the audience off-balance: at first it's hard to tell if he's truly dangerous or if it's our paranoid imagination assuming the worst. A key theme established early by co-directors Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie is the importance of young people, girls especially, learning to trust that inner voice that tells you that you're in danger, even when the person triggering that alarm-and perhaps the society that enfolds all of us-is insisting that everything is okay. The story kicks into gear when Carmody Braque (Timothy Spall), a soft-spoken loner who lives in the local rail yard, befriends Jacko, inviting him into the trailer where he stores his prize collection of dolls and stuffed animals. We glimpse them in the movie's early narrated sequences (which suggest a nonexistent Terrence Malick horror film) and in moments when she seems to communicate telepathically with a handsome but unnervingly intense classmate named Sorensen Carlisle ( Nicholas Galitzine).
She has otherworldly powers, but they're undeveloped and largely unacknowledged by her. The heroine and narrator, Laura Chant ( Erana James), is a Christchurch, New Zealand teenager living with her single mother Kate ( Melanie Lynskey) and her adorable kid brother Jacko ( Benji Purchase) in the aftermath of an earthquake.
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