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Flow 2024
Beautiful and impressive!
This was made on Blender!! Which is so unbelievable to me. Watching Flow, I found myself studying every movement, all visible brushes and strokes, the gradients in shadows and light. You can feel yourself forgetting that every frame is labored over, letting the meditative story wash over you at times.
Aside from the triumph of its form, the perfect simplicity of Flow’s story was wonderful. I tried interrogating every bit of its subject matter, from the biblical implications in…
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Innocence 2004
Stylistically this film is every bit stunning. I loved the whimsical aspect of the world Hadžihalilović creates.
The reveal later on in the film was certainly disturbing. My take on the story is that even in girlhood, women and girls are dependent on their own exploitation in order to exist. We cannot meaningfully carve out spaces for girls to grow and remain unaware of our position in society as mere performers.
Innocence walks us through a beautiful world of flourishing gardens, undirtied white uniforms and velvet bows before raising a curtain onto the same wretched world we exist in. (Too cynical?)
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