Elijah Sowunmi-Figueroa

Elijah Sowunmi-Figueroa

Film Student - Production

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  • Parasite

    ★★★★★

  • Fruitvale Station

    ★★★★½

  • Daughters of the Dust

    ★★★★

  • Beasts of No Nation

    ★★★★

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  • Parasite

    Parasite

    ★★★★★

    Parasite (2019) was a film directed and written by Bong Joon-ho with the co-writer Han Jin-Won. This black comedy followed an impoverished family who couldn't afford food, cell service, nor education. In an effort to elevate the family, the four of the family unit scam a wealthy family into hiring all four of them. A tonal shift sets as its realized another struggling couple has been using the home's panic room as a home. Tragedy and ruin lead this family…

  • Fruitvale Station

    Fruitvale Station

    ★★★★½

    Fruitvale Station (2013) portrays racial dynamics through prisoner and police systems. Through a flashback, Michael B Jordan's portrayal of Oscar comes into a verbal conflict with a fellow inmate. This creates a racial dynamic which is later deradicalized through his interactions with a white couple and white woman. Empathy is the key connecting feature of these two deradicalized interactions: using the opportunity of criminal reformation and shared cultural knowledge respectively to bridge the racial divide. Thus the prisoner conflict is…

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  • La La Land

    La La Land

    ★★★★½

    Melancholic. Swell environmental storytelling. Campy. I wish there was more.