{"id":23250,"date":"2016-11-15T06:36:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T11:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=23250"},"modified":"2016-11-15T02:56:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T07:56:13","slug":"little-miss-perfect-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/15\/little-miss-perfect-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Miss Perfect (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"littlemissperfect\"<\/a>As changes happen around her, an overambitious teen turns to weight control in order to feel more in charge of her life and herself. Written and directed by Marlee Roberts, Little Miss Perfect is an intimate look at an exemplary student\u2019s descent into anorexia as a way to feel in control of her life while also being a cautionary t tale about the dangers of leaving teenagers unsupervised and about the influence online strangers can have on one person.\u00a0 The film\u2019s story gathers the perfect confluence of reasons for this to happen: Disappearance of her mother, absent father, peer pressure, starting to date, internet influences, popularity of \u201cthinspo\u201d, etc.<\/p>\n

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The decently developed lead characters has many factors stacked against her easily influenced emerging personality.\u00a0 The adults, with the exception of one, seem mostly absent from her life, leaving her to her own devices also has a huge impact on her thought process.\u00a0 The film concentrates on its lead of Belle (Anabelle) and her friends more than anything else to establish her character, her life, and why she ends up starving herself.\u00a0 In the lead of Belle, or Anabelle, newcomer Karlee Roberts gives a good performance as the weight and calorie obsessed teen.\u00a0 The way she pulls away from those close to her and shows this and other teen struggles feels realistic to this (admittedly non-teen) reviewer.\u00a0 Playing her frenemy Lyla, Izzy Palmieri plays her character as on that edge of nice and nasty.<\/p>\n

She makes it feel like she\u2019s never 100% one or the other, giving a layered and calculated performance.\u00a0 The rest of the mostly teen cast does decently with an off scene here and there, but not often enough to become a big problem. The film\u2019s cinematography by Oren Soffer is simple and allows the film to focus on what is going on with the lead and the emotions behind it all.\u00a0 His cinematography is un-intrusive but also doesn\u2019t add anything stylistic to the film unfortunately.\u00a0 The music by Giona Ostinelli works with the film and is also subtle and un-intrusive.<\/p>\n

A surprising aspect of the film, which will not be spoiled here as to what exactly it entails are the special effects by Nicholas Johnson and the visual effects by Andrew Aprahamian and Matthew Roscoe which add an extra layer to Belle\u2019s view of herself and her environment.\u00a0 Their work creates a visual support to what goes on in Belle\u2019s mind and help the viewer to connect with her.<\/p>\n

Little Miss Perfect is a cautionary tale about the dangers of unattended teens, anorexia, and peer pressure.\u00a0 The film shows its writer\/director\u2019s passion for it and that she put a lot in the script and direction.\u00a0 First-timer lead Karlee Roberts shows a lot of potential and an ability to portray difficult situation that should take her far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As changes happen around her, an overambitious teen turns to weight control in order to feel more in charge of her life and herself. Written and directed by Marlee Roberts, Little Miss Perfect is an intimate look at an exemplary student\u2019s descent into anorexia as a way to feel in control of her life while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[225,302,1033],"class_list":["post-23250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-coming-of-age","tag-drama","tag-teen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23252,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23250\/revisions\/23252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}