Movie review: ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ lacks grit

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Movie review: ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ lacks grit
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Based on Delia Owens’ wildly popular best-selling novel of the same name, “Where the Crawdads Sing” is ostensibly a story of struggle, survival and tenacity — one where a young woman named Kya grows like a flower through concrete in a harsh 1950s and ’60s world, despite the best efforts of a callous and often cruel community. But it plays more like a glossy Nicholas Sparks-flavored melodrama than a tale that actually has any meaningful connection to the messy real world — wetland or otherwise.

) who run a fuel dock and bait shop. When she’s laughed out of school for her bare feet and inability to read, she decides to embrace the natural world as her teacher instead, thus sealing her fate as a town outsider. Jennifer Lawrence

’s "Winter’s Bone" instead keeps returning to a more clean-cut storytelling mode, even with a potential murder in the picture. As Kya grows into young adulthood, her isolated life becomes defined by romantic relationships with two men: Shy, kind Tate Walker who teaches her to read and with whom she shares the joys of first love, and confident, charming Chase — the man who will eventually wind up dead in the marsh.

That ill-fitting conventionality carries over into Kya’s love life too, which has no distinctive sexuality or even sensuality to match her unorthodox upbringing; no feeling of tactile pleasure to match her love of the natural world. Though we’re told that Kya has a wild, free-spirited side, she never comes across as anything but sweetly modest and entirely in line with the social standards of the 1960s.

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