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[PENGUIN-BLOOM]

The bird learns to fly; the woman learns to accept; and the gap between the two arcs is where the film's assumptions live.

Zarvos scores the recovery around the magpie rather than the woman, and the displacement is exactly right.

Watts returns to Australian cinema for a true story about a magpie and a spinal injury, and the film is better when it trusts the bird.

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