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One for the Road 2021
Sundance Film Festival
Film #3Poonpiriya's deconstruction of modern romance; reminiscent of the "good ol' days," when the pandemic never existed and our lives are not the new normal. An anthological barnburner, flipping through the pages of time and memory to unravel the mysteries and secrets of its characters by shredding their perspectives and thought processes little by little. See past its tropes, and the reward you get from doing so is fulfilling.
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The Girl and The Gun 2019
7th QCinema International Film Festival
Film #13A woman and a gun–separate entities with their respective storylines–finding their way to each other to build a Tarantinoesque mess. Relies heavily on the sociopolitical dynamic of the PH war on drugs and the #MeToo movement to deliver its point. Reductive in relying on a gun as a trigger point to have a change in behavior for the woman and oversimplifies the point the film wants to champion. Was the gun's backstory necessary…
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