Director Andrea Arnold's drama about a young girl and her grifter dad is a typically gritty look at life on the margins — until it very much isn't.
starts off with what might feel like a wee bit of a feint: A 12-year-old named Bailey is filming a flock of seabirds on her phone. They’re gliding high above the beaches in the British county of Kent, near the bunker-like apartment building where Bailey lives with Hunter , her gangster-wannabe stepbrother, and Bug , her tattooed manchild of a dad.
But no, there’s actually a character named Bird, who happens to flutter into her life in the most unusual of ways. Bailey has just found out her dad is getting married to his new girlfriend, Kayleigh , she’s supposed to wear a purple leopard-skin catsuit as a bridesmaid, and the kid is having none of it. As an act of rebellion, Bailey shaves her head. She also witnesses Hunter slice up a fellow teen’s face, then sprints away from the scene of the crime.) in a skirt, wandering around a field.
This time, the dodgy father figure is more of a standard-issue paternal fuck-up than a predator, and Keough commits to leaning in on the character’s laddish immaturity and rough edges. Bug is a bit of a grifter, and his big get-rich-quick scheme is to sell the hallucinogenic secretions of a toad he mail-ordered from Colorado.
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