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A Monster Calls (2016)
★ 7.3 · 3,545 ratings on TMDB
Stories are wild creatures.
12-year-old Conor encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness and being bullied in school.
DirectorJ. A. Bayona
The emergence reading
In A Monster Calls, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “grief monster myth”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, truth, family, death, identity.
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