ink-splotch:

Just saw the Darkest Minds movie! Great actors, well done– it’s a giant hodgepodge of YA tropes but somehow doesn’t feel trite or overdone, just familiar and well worn, with enough individuality to keep it fresh. It’s like Hunger Games* meets the X-Men?? I was pleased.

*Even more so, as the protagonist is played by grown-up Rue (aka Amandla Stenberg). I was definitely at least once thrown out of the film with a wave of pained imagining of a world where Rue got to live to be this beautiful sixteen year old. Like, just, this character, the heart of a YA film, Katniss’s age, I dunno, dudes, it just hit. She was in a field?? It was beautiful