A short running time and a talented cast led by Benedict Cumberbatch keep this charmingly inventive Roald Dahl adaptation from overstaying its welcome
Here, Cumberbatch picks up the narration, describing a thin notebook with a dark blue cover Henry discovers in the library. The book turns out to be a doctor’s first-hand account of meeting a man who had taught himself to see without using his eyes. The nesting-doll narrative then takes us into that story, narrated at first by Dev Patel as the doctor and then later by Ben Kingsley as the miraculous man himself.
The entire film is shot on a series of sets with backdrops that fly in and out, as the setting requires. As the actors move through the fabricated worlds, they transform around them. Stagehands come and go to bring in or take out props and furniture. At one point, Kingsley is transformed from an old man into a younger one by an onscreen makeup crew, including Cumberbatch in a secondary role, while we watch. There’s not even the vaguest pretense of a fourth wall.
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