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Nowhere, says Nick, which is pretty much where we are, too.
Are they really brothers?
Why do they seem unnerved by passing police?
Why is their destination the middle of the woods?
The boy gazes on his older companion with longing as well as fear.
Why else would they be maybe running?
Its not an especially shapely work, and its murkiness and longueurs have irritated many critics.
But even with its overlong coda, I respected and responded to it.
Its like a piece of music thats richer for its unresolved chords.
Much of its magnetism comes from Freedson-Jacksons tormented face.
He resembles Wil Wheaton inStand by Me, which isnt a bad association.
Hes faraway lost in his own mind but so emotionally raw hes like a walking wound.
Pettyfers Nick is, by contrast, unreadable.
One reason is that she could obviously let them stay in the motel for more than a night.
But does Nick want her, too?
But there are too many dissonances to be sure.
Radcliff and Wolkstein maintain an atmosphere of paranoia and dread by what theydontdo.
Jeremiahs visions provide clues, but not enough to assemble into something definite.
The threat of sexual predation persists but is it real or implanted in our brains?
To say Strange Oneswould pierce the fog, dissipate the strangeness.
But there are shocks at the end that work thunderously well.
The story might have seemed obvious even sentimental in a conventional linear telling.
Twisted into knots it evokes a strange and haunting mind.
