As I was reading the review in the Guardian and came across this: "As Jasper Jones opens, 13-year-old Charlie (Levi Miller) and best buddy Jeffrey (Kevin Long) debate whether Batman is technically a superhero given that he has no actual superpower – and whether Spider-Man would be of any use in their (fictional) home town of Corrigan, given that there is so little to swing from," my mind flashed back to when I was about thirteen· I lived in a small village in western New York· At the time their was a active railroad depot and a bus station downtown· During the summer we neighborhood kids would go into the post office building, peruse the wanted posters, then go to the depot and station and investigate who got off· We never discovered any marauders; and after a couple of months, the game grew tiresome·
The Hardy Boys-like mystery becomes real with elements one would never find in our childhood fantasy play· An enchanting story.