This left me thinking about so much. The ways you can lose a child. The inevitability of some things that you can’t overcome as a parent. The system as it is and the complete dissolution of the social contract as we know it in the youth and even just post pandemic. And then the more obvious themes of violent crime and toxic masculinity, at the risk of using buzzwords. Nature vs. Nurture is so aptly named because it is a…
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An American Crime 2007
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This case has a similar problem to Lolita. It’s nearly impossible to ethically adapt it. That being said, the other movie that came out in 2007, The Girl Next Door, handled it better, in my opinion. Not using real names and claiming to be loosely based upon the case saved it from a lot of the critique I have of An American Crime. It’s too kind to the perpetrators and a little victim blamey at times. I could excuse some…
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Heretic 2024
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This is that joke where the government doesn’t want you to know that missionaries are free. He has 100s of them in his basement.
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