Young-gu, a pizza shop clerk, chases an old man dressed in old clothes to go to the Joseon Dynasty. In the village where Yeong-gu ended up, a terrifying monster called Dragon Tuka appears for many years, demanding that a living virgin be sacrificed every month. In order to catch Tuka with a lot of bounty, the warriors come from all over the country, but they are beaten at once. In fact, aliens appear in the face of a permanent reality, and these aliens are trying to capture Tuma and his necrotic dragon Tuka by using their permanent bodies. The battle between the Aliens and Tuka begins.
Treated like a granter of wishes for those earning out of retelling the same tragedy, Marilyn looks like she's caged in different stages of trauma for us to stare at, instead of someone we’ve finally allowed to rest in peace.
Netflix takes some liberties in its portrayal of Madame CJ Walker, a trailblazing Black entrepreneur.
“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.
The trouble with Yara (2021) is that in its attempt to tell the whole story, it struggles to tell a consistently engaging story.
'Living' dives into many themes that we can all understand regardless of our cultural backgrounds. We can see this through the shared similarities between 'Ikiru' and 'Living'.
"La Noria" deftly subverts audience expectations as it explores childhood grief, anxieties, and pain. The award-winning short shows us that often our monsters are often sprung from our darkest places.
