A woman obsessively body-checks in her bathroom, lost in a ritual of control and self-surveillance. From the window next door, a young girl watches, silently inheriting the script of womanhood, where beauty and self-critique are learned side by side.
Hiring bias is something that's rampant in all industries (even unconscious bias). But writing a script totally neutral not only opens the door for more diverse actors, but also for characters that are people first.
Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.
A short film that begins with the language of romance but slowly reveals something far more unsettling beneath the surface.
"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.
The trouble with Yara (2021) is that in its attempt to tell the whole story, it struggles to tell a consistently engaging story.
