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The Spirit of the Beehive 1973
This is a picture that takes time to sink in. The narrative is somewhat fragmented and the characters move under enigmatic intentions. The sudden understanding that this movie is a child's fantasy clashed into the real world lightened the whole theme.
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A Sun 2019
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1. "The fairest thing in the world is the sun," this line threads the whole movie together. A troubled family of four undergo shattering moments in their lives and despite all gloom and doom enjoy lapses of sunshine where morsels of warmth are found. The symbolic potentiality of the sun has been fully excavated in this movie where the temperature of the sun is connected to the character's relationship and the brightness insinuates the development of events. This is a…
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Moonlight 2016
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This is no ordinary coming-of-age picture, and the greatness of this piece is definitely not because our protagonist is black and homosexual. The distinctivness of this picture lies in its realistic touch where, as an audience, we come to witness Chiron's identity crisis. Chiron's identity tussles severely with the socially received concept of masculinity in his upbringing. His struggle is presented in three chapters respectively titled Little, Chiron, and Black, in a sense of the identity our hero comes to…
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The Second Mother 2015
This is a picture that takes class as a target, and with a lively kind of defiance rebukes the violence of class differentiation. Class and family relation are placed juxtaposition in this film, and by seeing class as a trap to the minset, the tension between our mother and daughter heroines is finally broken through. I had questions with the ending where the comedic outcome seems a bit factitious to me, but with Regina Casé's stupendous acting the story remains…
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