Gus Van Sant's Constant Thematic and Cinematic Elements
The differences in these films could not be more blatant, and yet Gus Van Sant has found a way to portray the same messages and use the same techniques in each.

While working on his fourth album, Oscar Daniello, lead singer of Delafé y Las Flores Azules, lost his father. This loss would permeate every song on the album *De mi sin ti y De ti sin mi*. And it would lead the singer to feel the need to fulfill a promise: the promise of a journey, an adventure into the unknown, to ride his bicycle back to Desio with his father.
The differences in these films could not be more blatant, and yet Gus Van Sant has found a way to portray the same messages and use the same techniques in each.
Based on the best-selling novel by Angie Thomas and a maxim of the late Tupac Shakur.
A film about family and sacrifice... and carnivorous locusts coming after you.
As a whole, Sightless pushed boundaries between illusion and reality. It made viewers question if there really is a difference. Ellen was strong, brave, and even compassionate given her situation. She was a force to be reckoned with.
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.
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.