Where the Crawdads Sing

"Kya Clark (Daisy Edgar-Jones) has had a difficult life. She was beaten by her father, while she watched her mother and siblings leave. She was left behind in the small house in the middle of the swamp. In the town, where everyone saw her as someone who didn't fit in, the girl, who wore dirty clothes and had her feet on the ground, was nicknamed the Marsh Girl. That's when we follow her story, with her loves and heartbreaks, in 'Where the Crawdads Sing'. Directed by Olivia Newman ('My First Fight'), the feature film shows both sides of Kya's life. First, a crime that comes in an overwhelming way into her life, when she is accused of murdering a boy from the city. Thus begins a legal battle that sets the tone of the film, with the tension of the girl's future in check. On the other hand, an unresolved romance and, still, flashbacks about her past, adorning it all. From saccharine sweet romance, beaten and lifeless, 'Where the Crawdads Sing' has nothing. Lucy Alibar's script is vigorous and mature. There are no trinkets that take away from the movie or make it too silly, as is typical in Nicholas Sparks romances, for example. It is a down-to-earth romance. Love is there, but there is also heartbreak, misalignment, disappointment, despair. It brings truth to the story while we stay glued to the screen anxiously and tensely for its unfolding."