What’s the genre? A little bit fantasy, a little bit horror, a little bit family drama. It’s probably best described as a dark fairy tale, equally indebted to Guillermo del Toro and The NeverEnding Story. What’s it about? A fair bit of I Kill Giants is just about process. It opens with Barbara studiously making and testing bait for the giants, laying out experiments, and observing the results. There’s a personal human story going on between Barbara and the various figures in her life. I Kill Giants (2017) is a drama, fantasy movie starring Zoe Saldana and Imogen Poots. It is directed by Anders Walter. Click to get latest reviews, trailer & buzz. I Kill Giants Trailer. Anders Walter's I Kill Giants (2017) movie trailer stars Zoe Saldana, Madison Wolfe, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Ehle, and Noel Clarke. (Virtually all of them female, including the people who support her and the bullies who haunt her; the speaking roles for male characters are fairly minimal.) But the film spends a fair bit of time with her alone, pursuing her quiet obsession — guarding her school with runes and handmade fetishes, leaving containers of rotting food around town as further bait, and other activities that look like mental illness from one angle, and a lonely, complicated vigil from another. If nothing else, it’s impressive how, at such a young age, Barbara is so devoted to her self-appointed duties. She treats other people with fearless contempt because she sees herself as doing more important work, with bigger consequences, than whatever they’re using to fill their empty lives. ![]() But in a way, she’s earned that contempt. She works hard at planning for and dealing with giants. She’s an adolescent girl with a full-time job. But more than that, I Kill Giants is about loneliness and how hard it can be to face our fears, let alone to let other people in on those fears. Barbara takes on her solitary task with the ferocity of any hero saving the world because no one else seems to be doing it, but she also tries to let other people into her life. It’s telling, and tragic, that she seems to be most balanced and confident when she’s keeping everyone at arm’s length. Only opening up seems to leave her vulnerable, frightened, and uncertain. ![]()
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