"I taught them how to aim and they shot me."
Incredible, empathetic, gut-wrenching filmmaking, really. It takes a very drastic situation and makes it simple; it all comes down to family, what they pass to you, what you return to them. It was interesting to see where the limits of the acting came in (not living the situation) and where the limits of the actual documentary (reliving the situation) came in, and I think the movie does a good job…
Loved how lived in this was, everything was so natural and real. You could feel the specter of money over the whole thing and you could tell just how close their destinations were, but it shows how precarious things can be -- it's terrible to have just one Thing derail your desires. Such a good cast, too, I believed everything they were doing. I do wish we got more of a resolution for Rosa, but I guess things are never…
I really liked the atmosphere of this, the slow camera work, the droning score, the quiet performances, they all work together to make an eerie movie.
I don't know if the sci-fi aspect of this was fully formed, but the ghost story worked well enough on its own (I guess the time travel was sci-fi but that could've been explained as some ghost power, idk), and I loved how the ghosts appeared in this.
It went in a few different…
This was cute and charming. It's a good-looking movie, too. The best parts of this were when it was unabashedly queer. The second-best parts were the father-son relationship scenes, I'm not sure I've ever seen that kind of relationship that healthy.
Gabe Gabriel and scene-stealer Loren Loubser were the stand outs for me.
It was a bit uneven plot-wise, some dialogue was a bit preachy (which is still always good for some people to hear), and some of the characterizations were all over the place, but overall I liked this.
March Around the World 2025
South Africa 🇿🇦
