Set in the late 1980s, the film stars Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet as a pair of young cannibals who flee together on a road trip across the United States of America and develop feelings for each other. Maren’s journey is a story of meetings and slow discovery of her own being, until a final kiss that we leave us on the edge of our seats.Bones and All is a 2022 romantic horror film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by David Kajganich, based on the 2015 novel Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis. It inspired movies, that’s for sure: Wes Craven in 1977, Rob Schmidt in 2003, and Christian Viel in 2003. Maren – the protagonist – takes with her a copy of Alice in Wonderland and any other monster story she knew (odd!) especially the tales of Sawney Beane, the head of a cannibal family that lived in Scotland in the sixteenth century, which probably never existed anyway and is a legend told to either slander the Scottish or promote some form of tourism. The only clue left behind is the name of her estranged father. The protagonist is abandoned, afraid and powerless, by her own mother at age sixteen.
His blood, though, was warm, his fingers tasty, and he reminded her of a sloppy joe. At any rate – sys the protagonist – he stank of rotten eggs and didn’t brush his teeth. This won’t save him from his fatal end: instead of sex, he ends up lifeless in his sleeping tent. The baby sitter’s first boyfriend at camp collects exuvia, the remains of a bug moulting, and nibbles on them as if they were candy. When the girl’s mother returns, all she finds is a heap of bones, picked clean, on the living room floor. «I had my teeth but I was too small to swallow the bones». There’s a fair-haired baby sitter singing a lullaby to her ward, a girl, and gently strokes her head.
Alas, I did understand it, after all! I just couldn’t accept that’s how the story started. Is it possible I can’t understand what I’m reading? I tried again. I stopped at page two and wondered just how rusty my English is. I opened Bones & All– Camille DeAngelis‘ book – and started reading.
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