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Belfast 2021
Moments after the opening credits, Belfast portrays a destructive neighborhood clash perpetrated by the Catholics against the Protestants. Perhaps history presents more background into this ongoing altercation, but Belfast focuses on the violent hate each group feels towards the other based on religious association. The characters are faced with radical life-changing decisions that will disrupt relationships, one’s livelihood and one’s roots, and the strength of the screenplay, which one an Oscar for Kenneth Branagh, is that it makes the viewer…
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The Wife 2017
Those of us older viewers have seen the evolution of the words “the wife” to mean a possession, to words used with a gesture indicating the woman over there, to unwittingly implying the real strength in a relationship, to one-half of a same-sex couple. With the exception of the latter, the title implies all of these references as told in this film based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Meg Wolitzer. The wife represents isolation and the…
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