The artist subsumed by her art in chilling increments
) plays Ella, a talented stop-motion artist who is merely the tool of her mother , a legend of the medium whose hands have failed her but whose vision lives on. She cannot undertake the painstaking, now painful, task of moving armatures through an eighth of a second of motion, but her daughter's nimble fingers are nothing but an extension of her whims.
However, as has been told in countless stories, the act of completing a work of art often comes at great cost, especially when the vision is as dark and twisted as the fairytale menace that Ella wants to bring to fruition.adheres to its clearly set rules of mental collapse and the blur between fiction and reality. But, unlike many such creative protagonists, it often seems that Ella knows exactly what is happening .
And just because it's a familiar tale, doesn't impact the strength of the retelling. Morgan rightly took home thefor his warping of the barrier between Ella's everyday life, where she has no control, and the nightmarish realm at her fingertips, where she remains subject to psychological forces that threaten to consume her. It's chilling and tragic in equal measures.
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