An injury ended Zhang Zhiqiangs dream of becoming a professional basketball player, so he became a physical education teacher. To impress the new young math teacher, he volunteers to teach the problem class of the school in math.
From its visually stunning opening credits, which show women dancing through a forest to musical rhythms that sound almost primal, to its quiet, heartbreaking final frame, Mona Fastvold’s historical rendering of the Shaker religious movement is an experience that will stay with me for a long time.
A trio of girls form a band and enter a singing competition together after learning they work best as a team.
A code adopted by gay men and LGBTQ+ individuals in general to subtly disclose your identity to another, “friend of Dorothy” is widely considered to originate with Judy Garland.
It doesn’t offer an absolute answer for the dialectical ethical questions that emerged in search of justice but portrays the characters as living people beyond the identities of victims.
