Review of Where the Crawdads Sing

I really wanted to love this movie. The acting was solid, the scenery was almost as I had imagined, Kya's relationship with Mabel and Jumpin' was endearing.... Kya had a reclusive innocence that matched the novel .... David Strathairn as her attorney was the highlight for me .. although fairly faithful to the storyline, the story of her relationships with both Tate and Chase were superficial and rushed, and the courtroom story lacked depth ... Honestly I was so annoyed and distracted by Kya's cleanliness and her prim, proper, clean pressed clothing that I couldn't attend to much else ... I mean the girl lived alone in a marsh, no electricity, washing machine, iron, little financial resources but she dressed better than me and had new outfits for every scene ... And somehow totally stain and wrinkle free. Come on people! But I think even more disappointing was the lack of portrayal of how she pulled it off ... The end was so anti climatic that I wondered what I sat through the movie for. I had this mental idea of how the scene of her in disguise could have played, even for a few moments, as Tate found the necklace. My daughter, who did not read the book, thought Tate did it ... She didn't even understand the unveiling at the end. Disappointing overall...