Modern Love Is Automatic (2009)

What starts off as a success story for a single mother living below the poverty line, slowly begins to weave itself into a tangled web of greed, guilt, and destruction.

Kate Winslet and Saorise Ronan deliver stellar performances in a film that doesn't live up to its potential.

These openly gay Hollywood figures risked so much by being honest about their sexuality: judgment, loss of employment, hate – even violence and death.

The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.

Twisting what seems to be obvious setups and frameworks is what sets the story structure of Squid Game apart. I appreciate that this narrative is complex but not complicated; an easy enough plot to wrap your head around while still treating the audience like an equal participant in this social commentary