THE THING WITH FEATHERS Review: Big Bird and the Stages of Grief

There are a wide variety of memes on the Internet, where famous movie characters make alternative choices at the start of their story (Neo takes the blue pill, Harry doesn’t go with Hagrid, and so forth), and the end credits start rolling, since there isn’t much point to go on from here. Dylan Southern’s live-action feature debut, The Thing with Feathers, resembles one of those memes – not even in terms of plot being thin (in all honesty, it is), but in terms of its major meaning being wholly served before the film even began, in the title of the novel it is based on: grief is the thing with feathers. It's safe to say that by now, the idea that a major trauma, a...

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