3 years ago

Best Movie Scenes: Where The Crawdads Sing (2022) - "I Could Teach You To Read" | #Cinephile

ABOUT:
#WheretheCrawdadsSing is a 2022 American mystery thriller drama film based on the 2018 #Novel of the same name by #DeliaOwens. It was directed by Olivia Newman from a screenplay by Lucy Alibar, and was produced by Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter. Daisy Edgar-Jones leads the cast featuring Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, Michael Hyatt, Sterling Macer, Jr., and David Strathairn. The story follows an abandoned yet defiant girl, Kya, who raises herself to adulthood in a North Carolina marshland, becoming a naturalist in the process. When the town's hotshot is found dead, she is the prime suspect and tried for murder.

PLOT:
Catherine "Kya" Danielle Clark lives in a shack with her poor family in a North Carolina marsh in 1953. As their violently abusive alcoholic father gambles their money away, Kya's mother and older siblings flee, leaving Kya alone with him until he too abandons her at the age of seven. She manages to survive by selling mussels to the Madisons' local store in Barkley Cove. The townspeople know of her derisively as "The Marsh Girl".

Kya was never schooled due to being immediately judged by the other children, so her slightly older friend Tate Walker lends her books and teaches her to read, write, and count. Over their teenage years, they share an interest in nature and begin a romantic relationship until Tate leaves for college and breaks his promise to return to her on the 4th of July.

In 1968, Kya begins a relationship with popular local quarterback Chase Andrews, who promises her marriage. Chase gives Kya a small shell which she makes into a necklace and gives to him. Tate returns to Barkley Cove wanting to rekindle their romance, but Kya is unsure. Kya ends her relationship with Chase when she discovers he is already engaged to another girl.

Kya has her drawings and notes about the marsh published and the income helps her keep her home. Her older brother Jodie reappears and tells her their mother died before she was able to reunite all the children. Jodie promises to visit when he can.

Kya rebuffs Chase's persistent attentions and resists his attempted rape, vowing to kill him if he does not leave her alone. The threat is overheard by a fisherman. Chase returns and vandalizes Kya's home while she hides in the bushes. Days later, Chase is found dead at the bottom of a fire tower from which he had apparently fallen. The muddy bog floods at high tide, destroying the tracks of anyone who might have been involved in his death, and no fingerprints are found on the tower. The shell necklace, which he had been wearing on the evening of his death, is missing from his body. Kya is charged with first-degree murder, prejudged by the suspicious townspeople and is defended by attorney Tom Milton.

Despite knowing Kya had been meeting with a book publisher in Greenville at the time, the police and prosecutor Eric Chastain speculate she could have disguised herself and made an overnight round-trip bus ride to Barkley Cove, lured Chase to the fire tower during the brief layover and killed him. With only this theory, the missing necklace, and the fisherman's testimony as evidence, Kya is found not guilty at her 1970 trial.

Kya and Tate spend the rest of their lives together. Kya publishes more illustrated books, and is frequently visited by Jodie and his family. When Kya is in her 70s, boating through the swamp, she imagines seeing her mother returning to the cabin. Tate finds Kya lying dead in the boat at their dock. Boxing up Kya's journal and other writings, Tate finds a drawing of Chase alongside a statement that sometimes the only way to protect the prey is to kill the predator. He also finds the missing shell necklace hidden in another page. The inference is that Kya had killed Chase after all. He drops the necklace into the marsh water, forever hiding Kya's secret.

PLAYLISTS:
• Horror: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8iHmEdv7AfLxJpvHYuOnAglgk3dlG6D6
• Action/Adventure: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8iHmEdv7AfLY_mZ_ohB5fr4iwMQF-16n
• Comedy: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8iHmEdv7AfL6izPlsa5aKDUiXXye2hth
• Drama: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8iHmEdv7AfIzvgibwc4utlSuO4tPLAB-
• Fantasy: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8iHmEdv7AfJtilDf91FaqkrL0Yx_WRSe
• Animation: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8iHmEdv7AfKtr0FM5M1c0o3Mz3IyzHTj
• Movie TRAILERS: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8iHmEdv7AfKYA9bph_iHSaAwA1swPhCl

SUPPORT ME (Buy Me Coffee)
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cinephile

DONASI/DONATION (Saweria)
https://saweria.co/Cinephile

Loading comments...