Marianne Dreams

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Marianne looked again. It was difficult to see much of any one of the stones because of the bars and the fence hindering her view. But as she concentrated on one of the humped squat figures with all her attention, she saw suddenly a movement. A dark oval patch, which she had taken to be a hole, disappeared, as a pale eyelid dropped slowly for a moment and then was raised again. And in the dark oval, the ball of an eye swivelled slowly towards the house and remained there, staring with a fixed and unwinking gaze straight, it appeared, at Marianne herself. She shrank away from the window and turned to Mark. ‘One of them looked right at me!’ she said.

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Ali: Well, I’d definitely recommend the book. I liked elements of the film but I didn’t really feel like it hung together.Ren: It says when Marianne and Mark are escaping, they hear ‘the sound of steps behind, plodding, slow, like the pounding of a giant pestle in a huge mortar’. Ren: In terms of absolute children’s horror I think the film is pretty great, and I’m glad we looked at both because I did really love THEM.

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Ali: That makes sense as something you can imagine a child enjoying. I find it harder to imagine a child enjoying the film. Adam: Well, in the film he has muscular dystrophy. So we kind of know as adult viewers from the start that he’s probably going to die. Muscular dystrophy’s degenerative and pretty devastating.

Adam: I think it gets across that feeling of being ill as a child. I had a lot of chest and ear infections as a young kid, so I definitely remember long days and weeks spent in bed and feeling stuffy and frustrated but also out of it and woozy. Coming of Age Story: Marianne Dreams is this trope in pretty much every way. Ironically, getting caught up in the escapism of a fantasy world is what leads to Marianne's maturity developing. Adam: Yeah, pretty much! There’s quite a lot of Anna’s parents in the film being oddly blunt. Like when Anna’s mum talks about her drawings. Ali: So after that the house is very crumpled and grimy and smeared with dirt. It really does have the texture of something that has been in the bottom of a bin bag.