obviously this story is insane and tragic and you can make an engaging narrative about everything public. that being said, a lot of this felt restrained, which is just what happens when you make a docuseries only a year after such a batshit and traumatic event.
i wanted to know more about jodi hildebrant, though i suspect her family wants to distance themselves from her as much as possible, and that's why she seems like almost a cartoonish villain in…
the surrealism is fun but speaking as someone who’s half white/half middle eastern, it sometimes feels that the realizations men have well into adulthood are the same that i had when i was like 19 and so this left me ultimately unmoved. it’s a deeply personal film so yeah that seems weird to say but i think any story that places a woman without her own story as a motivation for a man’s self discovery will always earn major side eye from me lol
“you will fill the world with so much music that it will crush him”
an extra half a star just because of feminism and i know this was commentary on British colonialism yeaaaa destroy that white boy!
a lot of teen movies w asian representation will paint their culture out to be oppressive or whatever with a white savior so it was SO nice when this didn’t fall into that trap. the main character has such a respect and admiration…
