Love that the movie implies so much without saying anything. You sense that this is a hurt man and a tired man who has found a way to be. Ima wa ima. Now is now. He’s trying to live by this motto. He’s contemplative like a monk but living in a stratified, capitalist society so it’s not perfect and it won’t be. But he’s kind of made perfect days by choosing to live outside what’s expected of him. He chooses…
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Past Lives 2023
Sweet film with a moving final act. Well written and acted. Worth revisiting.
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Miyazaki combines his strengths in impressionistic storytelling, design, and mood to create a masterwork. This, as best as I can describe it, is a fairytale about the role of imagination in the healing process of grief, as well as our limitations in creating new worlds. The Boy and the Heron jumps between a post-World War II Japanese country villa and an otherworldly tower where time and space lose meaning.
Inside the tower are doors to a world created by an…
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