Mikoto is an average school girl, but actually is the figure of Asura after getting sealed by Yama. She spends her days accomplishing missions to fight against demons. One day, she saves a boy who was getting beaten by the chefs for running away without paying for what he has eaten. Unfortunately, the boy was possessed by a ghost that Yama was looking for. Yasha, the guardian of the Sky, hears about this and concludes Mikoto wasn’t doing her job. Yasha decides to deprive the qualification as a Slayer and makes Yama summon her to hell.
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Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
Dune has stunning visuals, a striking soundtrack, and great performances. But it has issues everywhere from its pacing, to its story, to its diverse representation.
"The Haunting of Hill House" isn't your typical horror story. Based on a novel by Shirley Jackson, Netflix's masterpiece and limited horror series takes you on a emotional rollercoaster ride, by turning our perception of mental illness on its head. It's an unforgettable story about a loveable family, who grapples with tragedy and love after living at the foreboding Hill House.
Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.
