12-year-old gymnast, Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), is desperate to please her image-obsessed mother, whose popular blog ‘Lovely Everyday Life’ presents their family’s idyllic existence as manicured suburban perfection. One day, after finding a wounded bird in the woods, Tinja brings its strange egg home, nestles it in her bed, and nurtures it until it hatches. The creature that emerges becomes her closest friend and a living nightmare, plunging Tinja beneath the impeccable veneer into a twisted reality that her mother refuses to see.
Hatching is not what I expected when I thought I saw Baby Sinclair in a still of the trailer. The trailer opens on an idyllic sunny day, in a gorgeous house with a happy family taking a photo on the couch. The atmosphere instantly grows cold as a crow flies into the room and destroys both a chandelier and a coffee table all at once. Mother snaps the crow’s neck. The scenes that follow are chilling but obviously a metaphor for a seemingly tense relationship between Mother and Daughter.
I’m still having a hard time getting over the goofy monster decisions made but the trailer made some excellent scene choices and the storyline is compelling so I’d happily take a crack at Hatching soon.
