
Friends, dinner, music - it's the life of a lifetime for Jim. After an evening filled with joy and good humour, it's time for Jim and Maé to go to bed. But when Jim wakes up, he finds himself in the middle of a gloomy corridor, surrounded by two doctors. Is it a nightmare or a return to reality?
It’s easy to dismiss Joel and Ethan Coen for writing from the world they build from outside the box of overarching Hollywood stereotypes, but their inability to compromise their collective vision is precisely what makes the simplistic nature of their world-building and characters so brilliant. It’s also what led Fargo to collect seven Oscar nominations and two wins for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress for Frances McDormand’s brilliant portrayal of the sincere, motherly detective whose wholesome demeanor seizes the day over the selfishness, corruption and evil of the men who don’t comprehend that there’s more to life than a little money.
The original series is now on Netflix, you should definitely give it a watch. And if you’ve already seen it, watch it again.
Two movies that do a fantastic job in conveying the ongoing struggle for racial justice are Selma (2014) and Just Mercy (2019).
'También la Iluvia' exploits Indigenous peoples' fight against the privatization of water in order to tell a story about Spanish characters.