Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This is a movie I will think about for a long time. It’s a surreal, unflinching look at life in the unglamorous shadow of Disney. Told through six-year-old Moonee’s perspective, it’s a story of resilience, parenting, and the quiet toll of poverty. Moonee and her mother Halley, a struggling sex worker, navigate life in a purple pastel motel on Orlando’s outskirts. They are making it alive thanks to their makeshift community.
The film vividly captures Florida’s essence — from Styrofoam-plated Cuban food to moss-draped oaks. The last scene, before the surreal Disney sequence, is heartbreakingly raw and broke me.
I really wished I believed the love story between these two. The beginning started off strong. It was a great meet-cute and instant chemistry. But once she came back to his apartment and heard what he said, and the rom-com enemies to lovers started I just couldn’t buy it. I found the parents very annoying. I really wish that the side characters: the sister, the best friend and the sister‘s best friend were more developed. They just fell short for…
Grabs you with the first scene of the hospital burning down killing his mother. After that it was a tad bit slow for me and I was confused with the unexplained magic & weirdness, but I played along and don’t regret watching it. The imagination was out of this world!!
Ultimately the movie was about loss, a boy grieving his mother, then accepting a new mom (who happens to be his mother’s younger sister?). I wasn’t completely sold on the heron…