Nims Island
Human beings are supposedly social animals. The instinct for social acceptance and validation dictates a great deal of culture and behaviors. Fashion, name brands, entertainment, and even vernacular is essentially dictated by the fear of being alone. Regardless of what pretentious delusions people will defend themselves with; it is unlikely that one would choose to wear skin tight pants or furry boots with pompoms given natural creature comforts. Not to mention the decision to spend two-hundred dollars a month on a gym membership while driving two blocks to the corner store. There’s that need to be seen in a trendy new vehicle as well. Yes, the need to be liked guides the human mammal through some peculiar customs, but every once in awhile there are individuals who have no interest in being a part of mainstream culture. A simple look at an obese tourist yelling about the latest episode of Survivor, while eating a deep-fried and breaded hotdog on a stick, is really the only image needed to understand where the instinct to be alone comes from.
Isolation, abandonment and agoraphobia are the three primary issues dealt with by the characters in Nim’s Island. They are handled with broad and uninspired strokes for the most part, but at least offer a theme to this over-written and occasionally disjointed Home Alone remake.
Abigail Breslin plays the titular Nim, an independent 11-year old living on an uncharted South Pacific island with her micro-biologist father Jack (Gerard Butler). When Jack leaves on ocean expeditions in the name of Science, Nim is left to her own devices with highly intelligent animal friends, including sea lions, lizards and pelicans.
Unfortunately, on one expedition, Jack is left stranded in the middle of the ocean. As he struggles to make his way back, Nim starts up e-mail correspondence with adventure novelist Alex Rover (Jodie Foster), an agoraphobic San Francisco germaphobe.
As Alex learns of Nim’s predicament, she feels compelled to travel across the world (not unlike Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone minus Michael Douglas) to save a young girl in need.
Release date April 9, 2008
Human beings are supposedly social animals. The instinct for social acceptance and validation dictates a great deal of culture and behaviors. Fashion, name brands, entertainment, and even vernacular is essentially dictated by the fear of being alone. Regardless of what pretentious delusions people will defend themselves with; it is unlikely that one would choose to wear skin tight pants or furry boots with pompoms given natural creature comforts. Not to mention the decision to spend two-hundred dollars a month on a gym membership while driving two blocks to the corner store. There’s that need to be seen in a trendy new vehicle as well. Yes, the need to be liked guides the human mammal through some peculiar customs, but every once in awhile there are individuals who have no interest in being a part of mainstream culture. A simple look at an obese tourist yelling about the latest episode of Survivor, while eating a deep-fried and breaded hotdog on a stick, is really the only image needed to understand where the instinct to be alone comes from.
Isolation, abandonment and agoraphobia are the three primary issues dealt with by the characters in Nim’s Island. They are handled with broad and uninspired strokes for the most part, but at least offer a theme to this over-written and occasionally disjointed Home Alone remake.
Abigail Breslin plays the titular Nim, an independent 11-year old living on an uncharted South Pacific island with her micro-biologist father Jack (Gerard Butler). When Jack leaves on ocean expeditions in the name of Science, Nim is left to her own devices with highly intelligent animal friends, including sea lions, lizards and pelicans.
Unfortunately, on one expedition, Jack is left stranded in the middle of the ocean. As he struggles to make his way back, Nim starts up e-mail correspondence with adventure novelist Alex Rover (Jodie Foster), an agoraphobic San Francisco germaphobe.
As Alex learns of Nim’s predicament, she feels compelled to travel across the world (not unlike Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone minus Michael Douglas) to save a young girl in need.
Release date April 9, 2008
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