We The Animals Review. March 25, 2019 we the animals has verve to spare, but it's also full of empathy and. A tiny, uncut gem of a movie, “we the animals” is the first narrative feature from the nonfiction filmmaker jeremiah zagar and, as such, its subordination of plot to character and observation.

The movie is experimental at best but disappointingly ends with no significance and will leave audiences unsatisfied. This tale of three brothers and their parents is told in the form of 19 chapters or short stories and it will generate a response. We, the animals is an ambitious mix of styles:

‘we the animals’ jeremiah zagar’s sensitive and richly evocative cinematic reimagining of justin torres’ poetic novel plays like a puertorriqueño ‘moonlight.’

The father, known as paps (raúl castillo), beats up ma (sheila vand) and disappears.ma takes to her bed and neglects her children. A tiny, uncut gem of a movie, “we the animals” is the first narrative feature from the nonfiction filmmaker jeremiah zagar and, as such, its subordination of plot to character and observation. We the animals critics consensus. In jeremiah zagar’s first narrative feature, we the animals , brothers manny (isaiah kristian), joel (josiah gabriel, “ night comes on ”), and jonah.