{"id":30368,"date":"2019-02-05T18:05:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30368"},"modified":"2019-02-05T18:05:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:05:47","slug":"lucys-tale-2018-final-girls-berlin-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/05\/lucys-tale-2018-final-girls-berlin-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy\u2019s Tale (2018) [Final Girls Berlin Film Festival]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lucystale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lucystale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lucystale.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lucystale-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lucystale-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><strong><em>\u201cGrowing Pains\u201d Shorts Block<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director Chelsea Lupkin\u2019s \u201cLucy\u2019s Tale\u201d is a short I hope to see turned in to a movie someday very soon. I think it has so much potential to become a twisted coming of age story about the birth of evil, as well as a story about body insecurity, sexual awakening, and the horrors of modern bullying. \u201cLucy\u2019s Tale\u201d suffers from a pun of a title, but once you get past it, Lupkin delivers a narrative that I wish was a hundred minutes and went further in to the story of Lucy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lucy is a young high school girl dealing with body issues. Considered under developed for her age, she\u2019s suffering from insecurities about her looks, especially as she\u2019s suffering heinous bullying at the hands of a clique at her school. One day when she notices she\u2019s beginning to grow a tail, she begins to look for ways to get rid of it. But things soon get interesting when she realizes she\u2019s also harboring subtle supernatural abilities as well. Is the tail just a deformity, or is it the sign of the beginning of something extraordinary?<\/p>\n<p>There are not a lot of hints as to the back story of Lucy\u2019s family, as much of the narrative is focused on Lucy, but the tail becomes symbolic of her growing maturity, her blossoming in to womanhood and the inherent body dysmorphic disorder she possesses. The moment she begins to accept what will be and embraces her appealing traits, \u201cLucy\u2019s Tale\u201d becomes a lot darker and much more horror based. I like to think that Chelsea Lupkin\u2019s short is the origin of pure evil, and the more Lucy matured, the more she\u2019d become a force of darkness.<\/p>\n<p>This is alluded toward in a scene where Lucy is watching Brian DePalma\u2019s \u201cCarrie.\u201d Along with a great script and stellar special effects (by Anthony Giordano), there\u2019s also the great performance by lead Irina Bravo, who successfully sucks us in to the tale of Lucy. She\u2019s not only an empathetic protagonist, but her gradual transformation also signals that she\u2019s going to become a vicious antagonist with her growing grasping of powers embedded within her. \u201cLucy\u2019s Tale\u201d is a top notch coming of age horror short, and I\u2019d love to see it in feature form, as I think it can be sit alongside classics like \u201cGinger Snaps\u201d and \u201cCarrie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival runs every year from January 31<sup>st<\/sup> to February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGrowing Pains\u201d Shorts Block Director Chelsea Lupkin\u2019s \u201cLucy\u2019s Tale\u201d is a short I hope to see turned in to a movie someday very soon. I think it has so much potential to become a twisted coming of age story about the birth of evil, as well as a story about body insecurity, sexual awakening, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[225,302,477,501,703,938,1008,1033],"class_list":["post-30368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-coming-of-age","tag-drama","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film","tag-supernatural","tag-teen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30368","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30370,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30368\/revisions\/30370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}