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What other way can you humanise evil? People describe this film as depicting the banality of it, the complicity of it. I felt as if it depicted it in the scariest way imaginable to a contemporary audience: by making us realise that people who commit evil acts... Are still human.
Think about it. We place up walls and ways of distinguishing ourselves as different to them. 'They're a psychopath", "they're cruel", "immoral", "sinful", "they are evil". But does every evil…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This film is about the inescapable reach of humanity, the overwhelming ambition, the decaying decadence that follows, the desire for achievement that precedes it. But most of all this film is about reconciliation. Both with yourself but also your own species and your place in the grand scheme of an overwhelmingly infinite universe.
You see corporatism beginning to creep in the human settlements, a lack of colour and life in the martian wasteland. The frontier of space being used for…
A three hour long film about letting go of past trauma, this films excells in small character moments which highlights different parts of their personalities very well. Excellent direction, fantastic natural cinematography and a good score.
There is a deep resounding feeling of melancholy with this film. The hidden darkness that permeates beneath the surface and it can affect everyone. We are told that love conquers all and that may be true in a storybook sense but displayed here in "Aftersun" it does not conquer but is in eternal conflict with the dark prisons of our mind. The music is haunting and reflective, the tone is somber and bittersweet. It is also not a film afraid…
