I Watch Films: Bring Her Back
Bring Her Back (2025) Andy and his step sister Piper, who is visually disabled, are taken into care in Australia after their father dies. Andy is 17, so can’t be Piper’s legal guardian. They are taken in by Laura (Sally Hawkins), an eccentric former counsellor, whose own visually disabled daughter Cathy died. She favours Piper over Andy, and has a shaven headed, non-verbal child she’s fostering, Oliver. As becomes clear not all is well; Laura comes between Andy and Piper, pointing out when he tells Piper about their father at the funeral even though he can’t look at him. Laura takes a lock of hair from their father’s body after having Piper touch it. She uses her own urine to make it seem Andy has wet himself. When Piper and Laura go out Andy lets Oliver out of his room, tries to get him to write on a notepad. Oliver tries to eat a knife, and when Andy carries him over the white line surrounding the property he has a fit and says “help me”. Returning Laura calms him, and...
