![]() Jack Be Nimble also uses a rich visual language where Jack’s stepsisters are rendered creepy for always traveling as a mob. Eventually Jack Be Nimble‘s Jack will get burned.įull of ambiguous touches, that allow the film to introduce supernatural elements (like psychic abilities) without any fanfare. Nursery rhymes repeat, though, so there’s no real danger. Having endured so much abuse as a child, Jack is understandably angry and plays with fire the same way Jack in the nursery rhyme does. Up until then, it seemed like a given that Dora and Jack reuniting could only be positive, but the moment Dora hesitates to get out of the car, is the moment Jack Be Nimble starts to ask the tough questions, like what if what’s good for one sibling is bad for the other, and what if love can’t quell Jack’s taste for revenge? It’s Dora who figures out a way to find Jack, but after her first attempt fails, Dora’s reaction to finding her brother the second try sets the tone for their reunion. Some of those ages don’t last long onscreen, either, but it adds so much momentum to the first third of the movie, where Jack and Dora are forced to grow up apart. That can’t have been easy – finding young actors who can act and also be passed off as the same person on an indie film budget. It’s one thing to hire actors to play young Jack and Dora (rather than go the ageing make-up route), but Jack Be Nimble has a slew of actors, playing Jack and Dora at different ages. Hansel and Gretel never had to be separated, though, and when Dora and Jack are adopted by different families that’s exactly what happens to them in Jack Be Nimble.ĭora’s family ends up being alright, but Jack’s childhood is a nightmare – and it should be mentioned here, how great the casting is in this movie. ![]() ![]() Jack and the Beanstalk would’ve been a more obvious choice, or jack in the box, since that’s the toy Jack is always shown playing with as a child (as an adult Jack’s played by Alexis Arquette), or even Hansel and Gretel, since Jack’s relationship with his sister, Dora ( Sarah Smuts-Kennedy), is so central to the story. It won’t be the last reference to fairy tales in this movie, but it does raise the question why this film was named after a nursery rhyme. Early in Garth Maxwell’s Jack Be Nimble, Jack and Dora’s mom ( Patricia Phillips) turns on a record of a fairy tale where a little girl has to run away from a giant.
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