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Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds 2023
Ultimately, Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds feels like a missed opportunity. I really really really wanted to love this, especially after learning it was hand-drawn, but I just could not get into it.
The film clearly draws from Studio Ghibli works - direct shots and plot lines alike lifted straight from classics such as Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited Away, and The Cat Returns - but fails to grasp the central characteristics that make the aforementioned films the greats…
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2007
Around the ending of the second act, there is a conversation, part argument, part plea, between the main character and her boyfriend. She says to him, "What do you care? It's not your problem."
Though spoken so calmly, her silent scream echoes in this line.
She says, "Have you thought about it? What you would do? How do you know I'm not?" It's the invisible shadow of anxiety that looms over her, cradling her body in wings of impermeable entrapment.…
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