Women Are Just Convenient Puzzle Pieces in “Animals”
A deer caught in the headlights is the perfect metaphor for Animals.

Leonardo, an optimistic travel agent, falls in love with Lucía, a mother trying to rebuild her life. But to become part of the family, he must first accomplish the most difficult task: winning the hearts of her two children.
A deer caught in the headlights is the perfect metaphor for Animals.
This story solidified my choices to consume a more plant-based diet and nearly made me cancel my subscriptions to big corporations like Amazon. The narrative was perfectly crafted and on par with Bong Joon-Ho’s other major works; Parasite and Snowpiercer.
Hope has great characters, inventive ideas, an incredible imagination, a palpable intensity, and numerous other aspects that make it one of the best of the year.
Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.
Ultimately the problem with The Bubble is that it plays everything for laughs to get around the audience’s defenses. But it comes off like a privileged white male thinking that ridiculing everyone else equally is the road to equality. And it’s not. And it's definitely not funny to pretend that it is.
Ian and Barley embark on a quest to find a magical gem to restore their father back to life.