Set in 1994 for no clear reason, The Turning makes other choices that feel like change for the sake of it. While we've watched Chris Pratt become a movie star and the MCU take chances on more colorful characters in the wake of Guardians' success, these space-traveling heroes have run the emotional gamut: Pratt's Star-Lord killed his biological father and lost his surrogate one Gamora ( Zoe Saldaña) died and was replaced by a younger version of herself Groot ( Vin Diesel) has lived an entirely new life cycle as a baby, willful teenager, and now buff young man since his near-death at the end of the first film Drax ( Dave Bautista) has pivoted from seeking revenge for his lost wife and daughter to being an important emotional pillar of his found family Nebula ( Karen Gillan) has built a purpose for herself as a supportive teammate rather than her despotic father's custom-built weapon and Mantis ( Pom Klementieff) has learned that empathy is more about meeting people where they are than forcibly changing their mind. Henry James’s 1898 horror novella The Turn of the Screw. The Turning builds to a deeply disturbing crescendo, then pulls the rug right out from under the audience in a way that seemingly undercuts what came before, an uncovering of dark, violent. They were seemingly enraged at the film’s unwillingness to. It's been almost a decade since the first Guardians of the Galaxy film debuted, and a lot has changed since then - both for viewers and for the characters. After a recent press screening of Floria Sigismondi’s The Turning, male members of the audience were visibly and vocally upset.
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