![]() Blonde and frankly often quite rude, Mary rather reminded me of myself as a child apart from the fact that I wasn’t gifted at anything. Her closest confidents are their neighbour Roberta (Octavia Spencer) and Fred the one-eyed cat. Mary (Mckenna Grace), just starting school, is a maths genius who likes to discuss the Euro with her dad, but has no friends her own age and no social skills. Everyone fighting for her claims to have 7 year old Mary’s best interests at heart, and they may genuinely think that, but it is not entirely true. Gifted is ostensibly about a child prodigy, and a court battle over her, but it is as much a story about a little girl who is at least partly expected to solve problems – both mathematical and everyday – for other people. ![]() But what I want to know is are these film squiggles real, and if so who writes them? First Hidden Figures, and now Gifted – either Octavia Spencer, who appears in both, is a real-life mathematical genius, or someone, somewhere is supplementing their meagre academic salary as “Movie Maths Monitor”.Īnyway I’m afraid I’m going to go on about Gifted “ad nauseam” as I loved it. Admittedly I was initially slightly put off seeing it as though I love film titles with puns, I hate the trend for making nouns into verbs – but I’m glad I put aside my pedantry, as Gifted is a wonderful film that manages to tread that fine line between sincerity and sentimentality.Ĭlick here for the Gifted 1 minute video review ![]() Movie Law dictates that any film about maths geniuses must have at least one scene with hundreds of equations being hurriedly chalked on a giant blackboard. ![]()
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