Two transgender best friends named Tanya and Rian, grew up together but became separated because of their realities. Rian who has access to Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) slipped past societal standards, while Tanya remains open and transparent about herself, including her identity, enduring the daily discrimination that is slowly eating away at her dignity. Amidst the silence of mere onlookers, neutrality becomes complicity in oppression, until Rian is gradually challenged by her own ghosts within her silence. It shows how radical love is a form of resistance. To choose to stand up, to talk, and to stand up for others, especially among those whom society chooses to silence.
If you were to watch it on streaming when you have nothing to do, it’s still probably a giant waste of time, but you could do far worse. Paying $18 for a movie ticket and who knows how much for concessions turns this from an exercise in boredom to an exercise in frustration.
"There is something going on between us that I cannot unravel."
As I typed this, Chris Evans was being “cancelled” on Twitter. I did a little research on this since I always thought Chris Evans was well-received. It turns out the backlash is because of a white savior movie he made called Red Sea Diving Resort.
Written and directed by Rian Johnson (Looper, Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi), Knives Out was one of the most clever and intricately crafted films of 2019.
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.
The enthralling prequel and 5th installment in 'The Hunger Games' film franchise.
