What ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Gets Right About YA
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Love resides at the core of Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. This of course could be said about most of the young adult adaptations that have populated screens, to varying degrees of success, after the tested formats of franchises like Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games. But DuVernay’s feature feels different, a step away from its YA contemporaries in that it remains unconcerned with love triangles, and caste systems seemingly developed to throw a wrench in the dating ambitions of young protagonists. A Wrinkle in Time is about love, but it presents the emotion as something much bigger than romance and idealized relationships, instead focusing on self-worth and the love of one’s own faults as well as virtues.
