Can words bubble up like soda pop?
A sweet slice-of-life anime that visualizes all the ways we creatively hide our vulnerabilities from the world.

A sweet slice-of-life anime that visualizes all the ways we creatively hide our vulnerabilities from the world.
'The Patient' is bound by four walls and a mediocre ending that leaves you wanting more.
The repeated actions, the blood on the petals, the rustling under the floor…An ambient short horror film takes us into another realm.
These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.
The Night Doctor achieves telling an original story in which the pace accelerates progressively while supported by dark aesthetics.
Only time will tell what this new Black Panther and movie will show us with all of the old and new elements of the superhero craft integrated.