The Drama: A Marriage of Discomfort and Empathy
This is not a film, it’s a drop tower. A drop tower that you don’t get off of for the vast majority of its 106-minute runtime.

Kairat gets a long sentence for embezzling a large amount of public money. He has been in prison for two years. During the time spent behind bars, he has acquired new connections and gained a decent authority, but Kairat's "comfort zone" collapses when an antagonist comes to him at one of the meetings in the person of a civil servant who offers him to shorten the term in return for a service.
This is not a film, it’s a drop tower. A drop tower that you don’t get off of for the vast majority of its 106-minute runtime.
This film manages to be simultaneously topical and timeless. Without being preachy, it highlights society’s flawed relationship with tech; insights into the complex ideas of family struggle are expertly dispersed among a perfectly paced and balanced story.
The original Mothra is a fun monster movie that has way stronger lore, music, and special effects than most of its contemporaries.
I suppose you could argue that the story wasn’t what Director James Cameron was aiming for, it was the visuals. The spectacle of it all was the point, and it certainly shows.
A direct fall into the white savior narrative
This modern update of the beloved classic swaps Cyrano's signature pronounced nose for achondroplasia, for a different vision that still retains the original's essence.