A Cannibalistic Take On Love From the acclaimed director Luca Guadagino, Bones and All is based off of the novel by Camille DeAngelis and tells the story of two new lovers who road trip across America together. Their sweetly sick romance is haunted by only one tiny detail: they are both cannibals. Maren (Taylor Russell) is an eighteen year old who is sheltered by an overprotective father, one who keeps a desperate lock on any information regarding her absent mother. As a headstrong and slightly rebellious teenager, she sneaks out of their house to attend a sleepover with the intent of making some new friends and finally establishing herself in the ever changing period of the 1980’s. While she gazes into the eyes of a newly acquainted friend and they ponder a host of thoughts together, she gets the urge to lean in and bite the girl’s finger off. Unable to comprehend the situation while
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fleeing back vto her home, her father instinctively reaches the conclusion and ushers Maren out of the house, changing their surnames and location while somehow being oddly calm about the whole cannibal thing. The story picks up from there, and after her father leaves his daughter to fend for herself with a cassette tape explaining that she has eaten people as a child, and her birth certificate, she embarks on a road trip with the goal of finding her mother. Along the way, her journey leads her to encountering another cannibal, Sully (Mark Rylance), a character who I personally think is one of the scariest antagonists who has appeared on screen in recent times. Sully teaches Maren how to successfully feed and how to smell other ‘eaters’ (cannibals), while being adequately creepy enough that she soon bolts, leaving him behind. The part of the movie that teenage girls have been anxiously waiting for happens soon after, and Maren bumps into Lee (Timotheé Chalamet) who agrees to help out with her sea rch after it is revealed that he too is an eater.