Found most of this a reasonably engaging but thinly sketched depiction of life under a theocratic regime. Started to creak with repetitiveness when the gun went missing, and then the third act went off the rails to such a degree I left the cinema in stunned disbelief.
I’m Still Here’s Wario.
What has stuck with me since I watched this was its sincere treatment of faith - its advantages and disadvantages taken seriously, weighed fairly, explored carefully.
To one degree or another, these characters are all committing a balancing act, having to navigate the politicking and ambition of the material Church alongside the duties and doubts of their inner faith.
That sense of duality runs through the film, but
most of all in its treatment of doubt - not just as…
