I went to a preview screening of the new A Wrinkle in Time film last night. I first found out about Madeleine L’Engle’s book when I was about 8 or 9 and reading stuff like The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit. Honestly, Wrinkle didn’t really stick with me — it’s sort of more of a cosmic sci-fi book than a swords and sorcery yarn and it didn’t really grab me like the other books I was reading. I read it and I mostly forgot it so I don’t really have any thoughts to offer regarding the inevitable BOOK VS FILM arguments these adaptations of beloved tomes always inspire.
That said, I wanted to include my review in this ongoing collection of counter-culture posts because it’s a very psychedelic story about using one’s mind to slip through alternate dimensions. The book was published at the dawn of the Age of Aquarius back in 1962 and it became an immediate hit with the generation that would grow up to challenge the Vietnam War. A Wrinkle in Time‘s occult themes find the book regularly challenged in school curricula. It’s also a sci-fi story that features esoteric physics and quotes from a bevvy of philosophers and artists, but also pins it’s plot to a little girl protagonist.
A Wrinkle in Time tells us that the future is female. Also, you should learn to tesser. Here’s my review…
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