Most unrealistic part of this movie is that people woke up and actually did something about it
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The fleetingness of life is a call to action, one that not all are strong enough to answer, especially the youth, who live under the fallacious assumption that time is plentiful. It's also a call to take stock, to chance freedom from earthbound chains that now seem weightless. The march of time is unceasing and spares no one, from two youths on the cusp of coming into their own, to their ephemeral, emancipated companion, to a passing island ferryman. Recognition of certain immutable constraints can itself be liberation.
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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
Visually dazzling, emotionally arresting, and red-hot. Put together, Parts 1 and 2 of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune already, pronouncedly, form what is arguably the greatest, most spectacular sci-fi epic committed to film, certainly of our generation, and it’s not even done yet. To adapt a singularly influential yet confoundingly presented tale some considered unfilmable is a feat in itself—to do so at the magnitude and scale Villeneuve achieves…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
People can be a lot like celestial bodies. We hurtle along through life on a path, potentially predetermined but in many ways unforseeable. Sometimes we're completely alone, unburdened of coercion or companionship. Sometimes we're spiraling around entire solar systems of our loved ones, bound to each other for eternity. Sometimes our gravitational impact on each other can be immeasurably strong but separated by distances so unfathomably vast we don't even feel it, even though it's there. Sometimes we're in a…