{"id":8422,"date":"2020-05-12T11:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2020-05-12T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:59:21","slug":"review-how-to-build-a-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8422","title":{"rendered":"Review: HOW TO BUILD A GIRL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Teen drama skews adult for laughs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-656x1024.png 656w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-768x1198.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-400x624.png 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-433x675.png 433w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-692x1080.png 692w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10.png 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/howtobuildagirl2-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8424\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>About halfway through \u201cHow to Build a Girl,\u201d this sweet teen drama becomes an adult-oriented comedy. The film earns its \u201cR\u201d rating in healthy doses by throwing its protagonist, 16-year-old Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein), into an advanced world of sex and alcohol mainly for chuckles.<br>Teen drama skews adult for laughs<br><br>And in this adolescent fantasy, a child adapts immediately to her awakening. Well, there is a comeuppance, of sorts, meant to find the right tonal balance.<br><br>Parents of 16-year-old girls everywhere will shudder. Could our delicate children be this cavalier about the loss of innocence? Well, yes, of course. They\u2019ve been raised by Tik Tok, Instagram, Snapchat, GroupMe, WhatsApp, Discord, Tumblr, and the list goes on and on. There\u2019s Twitter, which contains an unregulated amount of adult content. And Facebook, well, that\u2019s just for old folks. The horrific soup du jour, OnlyFans, has gone from a creepy online platform to something of the pop culture mainstream.<br><br>But in \u201cHow to Build a Girl,\u201d Johanna ventures out in the backward, technologically rustic world of the 1990s. The internet didn\u2019t factor into her rough upbringing. She\u2019s a girl from an English council estate. Her hapless, but good-natured, parents have their hands full with the unexpected birth of twins, bringing their child count to five. And from the look of things, much of what\u2019s happened in their lives was unexpected.<br><br>Read the rest of my review online and in print in the Times-Herald: <a href=\"https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2020\/05\/how-to-build-a-girl-teen-drama-skews-adult-for-laughs\">https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2020\/05\/how-to-build-a-girl-teen-drama-skews-adult-for-laughs<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1990s set teen drama is really for adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1937],"class_list":["post-8422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-teen-drama","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8425,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions\/8425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}