![]() ![]() It turns into a giant bird-monster and inspires a weirdly lackluster coming-of-age identity crisis.Įverything that happens in “Hatching” seems to happen either in spite of Äiti or as an aimlessly pissy riposte to all of the bougie values she seems to represent. Oh, also, Tinja finds a baby bird in the forest and raises it in secret. Tinja’s mom also seems to have crushed the spirit of her dutiful and somewhat nervous husband Isä ( Jani Volanen), who takes orders and keeps up appearances, but otherwise doesn’t seem to matter. But Tinja can’t nail her dismounts and always seems to land on either her side or her knees. ![]() Äiti wants her daughter to practice, practice, practice until she earns a slot at an upcoming gymnastics competition. Äiti has some humanizing qualities, and she’s also superficially oppressive to a very immediate fault. A good start for a horror movie, but not unexpected given how plainly monstrous Tinja’s mom tends to be. ![]() That set-up also kind of explains why there’s nothing shocking about the violent bird-related climax of an early scene: Tinja’s mom snaps a blackbird’s neck after it flies into Äiti’s home and breaks some things as it struggles to escape. Äiti constantly documents Tinja’s activities for her influencer-style blog, all about her “normal Finnish family.” Which in turn explains their family’s floral wallpaper, pastels-and-polos attire, and glass-and-porcelain home décor. Or maybe Tinja’s just unsure of how to live with her mother’s many expectations. The main appeal of Tinja ( Siiri Solalinna), a shy pre-teen, often seems to be that she’s not her stifling mother Äiti ( Sophia Heikkilä). But while your mileage will obviously vary, “Hatching” never really congeals into something that’s as unsettling as it is gross. Bergholm (who has a story co-author credit) and screenwriter Ilja Rautsi deserve credit for effectively practicing the Roger Corman rule of teasing viewers with something good ‘n exploitable (in this case: bird-monster-related) every ten minutes or less. Unfortunately, in “Hatching,” the horrors of growing up-and more specifically of being raised by insensitive, repressed parents-are otherwise not that disturbing or even memorable. ![]()
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