''The Starling Girl' excavates a startlingly original coming-of-age story, a study of the suppression of desire that’s served alongside burgeoning womanhood, regardless of creed,' writes colemanjspilde for Daily Beast's Obsessed.
Growing up in the Midwest, I often saw my peers caught somewhere between devout, conservative Christianity and total freedom to make their own choices about religion. Friends would try their damnedest to pull me along with them to their Wednesday night youth worships—which terrified me, like any gathering of people, repeating the same things in unison should.
When Jem’s dance troupe opens the film with a carefully choreographed performance, it’s hard to see a single flaw in her step. That is, until a member of that congregation points out that Jem’s dress is faintly transparent, an apparently fatal fault that could lead to the distraction of fellow congregants, and Jem vulnerable to the devil’s hand. This admonishment is brutally mortifying for both Jem and the viewer.
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