Adolescence
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When you become a parent, you enter a new world of worries.
Is my baby beingtooquiet?
Is my kid talking when they should, walking when they should, reading when they should?
Do they have enough friends?
Are they a good friend?
A good global citizen?
When the premiere opens, its with idle cop chitchat.
Its 6 a.m., and theyve taken the family by surprise.
Jamies so shocked he pees his pants while his teen sister cowers in the bathroom doorway.
And for a while, as a viewer, you wonder that too.
Owen Cooper, who plays Jamie, is perfectly cast.
The heightened emotions and the sullen chatter.
How could this boy commit murder?
And if he did, does he really deserve this very adult treatment?
This questioning by these very adult, very business-y cops?
This cell just across from some very belligerent grown-ass man?
There must have been a reason, or maybe the cops got it wrong.
Maybe this is a story about how some kid gets railroaded.
Its horrific, and, somehow, its Jamie.
Its tough to want to push forward from here, except in search of the why.
ButAdolescenceis so well-made and compelling that its hard not to go on.
Stray Observations
The cops inAdolescencekeep their lives so insanely compartmentalized that its downright disturbing.
I must be a glutton for punishment.
