
Candela is a 70-year-old woman with advanced senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Gloria, her wife, struggles to keep the parts of memory that time has not yet extinguished, each time with less fortune and more wear and tear. Both Gloria and Candela are increasingly lost in that disease that drags them to the two and separates them. Gloria understands that even if she is capable of recovering pieces of the past shared with Candela, it will never be the same; although they can live moments similar to those of their youth.
An aspect of She-Ra that I find refreshing is even though a large portion of the cast is on the LGBTQ+ Spectrum, being gay is never mentioned. While this might initially sound like a negative thing, in the show’s land of Etheria being on the gay spectrum is shown to be so common and normalized that straight isn’t the default. As much as there is to appreciate about narratives revolving around the obstacles that may come from being non-heteronormative, it’s nice to get immersed in a world where no one bats an eye at all to any sort of differing identity.
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.
The message to take away from 'Causeway' is that toxic masculinity can manifest in anyone, no matter what their gender identity is.
The film may be a thriller, but I wasn’t thrilled by it. If anything, I was bored and annoyed.
It’s the most loving tribute to cinema and to Ingmar Bergman, set in world that feels so habitable that I felt like only re-watching this for eternity, because of how inviting it looks and feels.