This film hit close to home. It unearthed a conflict I've been wrestling with for a long time: how do we deal with abusers? Dehumanising them, labelling them monsters, feels like an easy way out. It creates a comfortable distance, but it also denies the unsettling reality that they are human, capable of terrible things. And that's the tightrope this film walks.
Seeing Steve, Attiya's abuser, years later, living his life... it triggered a wave of anger and injustice. It…
*Cinemates Actor of the Month: Isabelle Huppert*
For anyone that would like a warning this film does contain animal abuse but no animals were harmed during the making.
I had heard that this fell below expectations for some people and I was nervous about viewing this because I loved the concept. I needn't have worried, this was a beautiful watch full of heart. The journey of EO is so genuine. Watching this just reinforces how humans are the most brutish…
The Dying Rooms, a harrowing documentary filmed in 1995, unveils the devastating consequences of China's One-Child Policy and the deeply ingrained cultural preference for sons. While the birth of a boy is met with jubilant fireworks, a girl's arrival is often greeted with quiet resignation, a mere placeholder in the desperate hope for a son next time. This stark contrast lays bare the deeply ingrained gender bias, where girls are dismissed as "maggots in the rice," a burden rather than…
