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Elemental 2023
I feel like I was born in the perfect time of Pixar animation, where all the films beautifully ride in tandem with my life’s milestones. From nurturing love, leaving country, wanting to make my parents proud.
I love American films so much more than European films, because there is hope. Though there is struggle, as anyone does, yet they are triumphant. What defiant love, what passionate revolt against despair.
Peter Sohn is such a brilliant storyteller. Drawing from the depths…
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Beau Travail 1999
Photographic cuts into a French occupied African coastal plateau where a Sergeant struggles to find the meaning of his existence. Going through the military motions, training, preparation, and internal drama.
An idleness that naturally ends up with a recruit getting killed. I find it interesting that the innocent reflections within a private journal slowly come to life and begin to take effect in reality. The drama within the introspective silence is most often the most deadly types of ruminations.
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Riceboy Sleeps 2022
Hmm… first review.
Another Asian film that delves into familial vein, oriental does communalist themes best.
I seem to have a thing for narratives that surround themes of mother and son, personally having gravitated to creating a project on my own relationship with my mama.
For me, I am deeply moved by powerful women. The quiet bravery that reside within mothers, acts of courage within the smallness. I love how the film explores might within the feminine.
A tear jerker. Climaxing in the final act with muted cathartic release, under written with swelling themes. Stripped back, long shots of humanness.
Let’s go back home.
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