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Once Upon a Time in the Caribbean 2023
The film immediately wraps us in the suffocating reality of Puerto Rican life under the American empire. Set in the late 19th and early 20th century, the island hums with the labor of sugarcane fields—its rhythm a quiet scream, fueling wealth for strangers while draining the very people bound to its soil. As the sugar industry fills U.S. coffers, the bodies that sustain it remain trapped, grinding endlessly in cycles of poverty and exploitation. Inequality runs as deep as the…
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Onibaba 1964
Onibaba reveals itself through a narrative driven largely by silence and atmosphere. In its hypnotic, monochromatic gaze, Kaneto Shindō forces the audience to confront the raw, fundamental elements of human existence.
Set in 14th-century Japan, at the dawn of the Nanboku-Chō period, a young wife and her mother-in-law are bound by the same absence—their husband and son, taken by war—leaving them stranded in a world where survival is a cruel, flesh-hungry thing. With no man to anchor them, they sustain…
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Her 2013
At first glance, Spike Jonze’s Her appears to orbit the curious intimacy between a man named Theodore and his operating system, Samantha. Yet, the film sinks much deeper into the heart and mind, unraveling the spaces between love and longing. Through Samantha’s disembodied presence, she transcends the roles of both lover and machine, becoming a guiding force in Theodore’s—and by extension, our—understanding of what love truly means. Her evolving nature challenges traditional notions of intimacy, reframing love as a dynamic, transformative experience rather than a fixed truth in Theodore’s life.
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