Bones and All written by Camille DeAngelis, has recently been turned into a film co-starring Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell.  Maren Yearly(Taylor Russell) spends her entire life running away from her genetic condition: Cannibalism.  After she finds that everyone in her life has abandoned her, including her own father, she embarks on a journey to find her mother.  As the plotline progresses, she encounters Lee(Timothee Chalamet), another human like her.

This film essentially romanticizes a psychoapthic tendency, and it awes me how the producers and directors were able to get away with that.  With gory and explicit scenes, this movie provides the audience with context as to how one with cannablistic tendencies lives their life.  

This movie left me confused, as their did not seem to be a resolution or much difference of the characters.  The two lovers managed to get away with their crimes completely unscathed, even though police could have easily caught them in the act.  It bothered me as to how indifferent Lee and Maren acted as they verociously devoured innocent humans.  Even though the two were painted as protagonists of the story, I did not believe them to be.  Some people are inherently evil, and psychopathic tendencies seem to override basic human reasoning.  

I overall understood the addiction factor towards wanting to fill a void or a desire, but eating one’s own kind does not make sense to me.  In the beginning of the film, Maren is portrayed as this new girl at school; not having friends because she dresses differently and has a difficult financial situation.  And though this is predominantly true, Maren is not innocent and shy at all. She continues to move because her father understands that she didn’t choose the ‘cannibalistic lifestyle” and that her actions root from her also cannibalistic mother.

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