During my senior year of high school, I decided to take a contemporary literature class. The course was pretty straightforward all we had to do was read a certain amount of books and complete a project for each of them before the end of the term. The only issue for me was deciding which.
"The Hedgehog" is a feel-good movie that masquerades at first as a feel-bad. It's narrated by Paloma, a precocious and almost infuriatingly self-assured 11-year-old, who plans to kill herself on her 12th birthday. This seems like a permanent solution to a trivial set of problems. Her complaints are common enough: Her mother talks to plants, her father is distractÂed by work, her sister is a snooty little snotnose, and her sister's goldfish serves for Paloma as a metaphor for her own life lived in a bowl.