Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This was intense. The story of the Gibbons twins secluding (muting) themselves from the rest of the world and going deep into their own was both amusing and unsettling.
I loved how their dreams, stories and songs were stylised (stop motion & puppetry) and composed albeit pretty eerie at times.
The film displays the codependent nature of these twins. It’s scary how relationships can bring 2 people so much comfort and safety and yet be so incredibly self-destructive.
So heart-wrenching to…
Dystopian and heavy, Plan 75 is about a euthanasia scheme enacted in Japan for those 75 and above. A scheme that provides you with a 24/7 hotline, post-death arrangements and $1000.
There are themes on self-sacrifice and economic injustices, spurring a lot of moral conflict as different characters are met with different barriers created by the system.
From the financially-struggling and morally conflicted foreign nurse, to the detached committed government workers, to the completely-abled senior woman, the film, in its…