Pearl

In 1918, a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation, and lovelessness of life on her parents' farm.Trapped on her family's isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this origin story of X's iconic villain.In rural Texas in 1918, decades before the events of X (2022), Pearl, an ambitious young farm girl obsessed with dancing and the movie industry, can't wait to spread her wings and leave the nest to make a name for herself. Instead, Pearl is trapped in the isolated farmhouse, living under the same roof with her punishing, disapproving German mother Ruth and her infirm, wheelchair-using father. More than anything, Pearl wants to be like the pretty girls in the pictures and not end up like her mother. However, as the romantic dream of a glamorous movielike life fades, chronic frustration, violent tendencies, and pent-up emotions pour forth. When you are simmering with rage, how do you deal with not getting what you want?�Nick Riganas1918. World War 1 is drawing to a close and the Spanish Flu is ravaging America. On a small isolated farm a teenage girl, Pearl, lives with her strict, domineering mother and almost-dead father. She dreams of being a star of stage and screen but her circumstances, and in particular her mother, seem destined to hold her back. However, her ambition knows no limits, to the point of being an obsession.�grantss

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