Remy, a depressed twenty-something has been dumped. When she accidentally places a food delivery order to her estranged girlfriend’s house, she must set out on a journey to retrieve it — causing her to reexamine their entire relationship, and herself, in the process.
In a film where a Black couple is framed to be the lead characters, they still managed to get shuffled off to the sidelines. The enthusiastic cast delivers well on goofy bits- but can only go so far before they begin to fall flat.
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.
This romance movie has strong representation of Taiwanese people.
One of the reasons that people with albinism have a difficult time being seen and represented in media is probably because there is a small percentage of them.
What are we willing to walk through to see our dreams come to pass? Our minds might be so wholly alive with the passions we carry and the plans we make to see these things become all we wish them to be, yet life doesn’t always want to come alongside. Instead, obstacles arise, both physical and mental, which attempt to dissuade us or even prevent us from moving forward, stalling or stagnating the momentum to achieve what we desire. The age-old question remains….can we overcome? Or will we BE overcome?
Ester Shapiro who flees the only home she has ever known to start a new life in Berlin.
