Jean (2018)

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  7 / 10

  The concept of 'theme' in movies is one that's often hard to put a finger on. It's generally a central idea behind a story or something that's touched upon throughout a film, but it crucially has the ability to ground a narrative in something meaningful to the audience, or to bind everything together. In the case of Shawn Melling's indie-picture Jean (2018) though, many ideas are presented to us in dribs and drabs by the script where characters discuss various meaningful topics on a whim, but what it's really about at its core can be construed far more slowly.
  
  The story follows a young girl Jean (Isabella Blake-Thomas) living in a desolate place caring for her aging grandparents - the grandmother of whom appears to be chair-bound, and the other who most definitely isn't as he frequently wanders off into the wilderness in search of his old "pack," of friends only for Jean to come searching for him. Aside from the central manhunts there are attempts at character development where Jean ponders on her difficult life and meets a young boy who might just become her friend, but all in all it is a very simple narrative indeed that appears to push theme to the foreground above all else.

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