Ji-ho regrets marriage with her selfish, withholding husband. She is desperate for a real relationship and by chance falls for a man who is exhausted from his constant lonely state. It turns out that the man is her husband's colleague, but she continues to enjoy herself anyway. Her husband returns home from a business trip and witnesses something he didn't expect to see.
Based off the book of the same name, ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ (2018) follows teenager Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Moretz) after she is caught being intimate with another girl and then sent away to a gay conversion camp.
Severance is about breaking down facades and confronting old models that were once frameworks of our lives. The somewhat subtle message to me is it’s never too late to fall in love, no matter your insecurities.
A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.
Outer Banks (2020-) knows its audience: young adults in a country that can’t stop romanticizing good ole’ treasure hunts. Add a little of Riverdale’s (2017-) sex appeal, and no one can look away. Forty years after The Goonies (1985) America’s consciousness hasn’t strayed from the same tropes: treasure hunts, a vulnerable white male lead, and the whitewashing of a racially segregated setting.
Another uneven "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" redux that says nothing novel about its subject matter.
How closely should film adaptations follow their source material? Let's take a deep dive into "Norma Rae", and find out.
