A daughter decides to test her father with dementia to determine whether the disease has worsened. The test is about getting him to open a glass of strawberry butter. For him, the task is difficult just like a Rubik's cube is a brainteaser. It results in impatience and irritability, and the daughter feels very much the fear of his illness worsening, and she will have to approach it with patience and understanding. The short film is an everyday image and a heartbreaking drama about fear, family and dementia.
As Andrew’s life begins to change, his passion for drumming soon becomes a spiraling obsession in the pursuit of perfection. Through the use of disturbing and abusive training methods, Fletcher puts Andrew through emotional and physical agony.
This is a Spanish-speaking short film that contains English subtitles. The short film is produced in the United States.
These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.
American Fiction is a genuinely entertaining film with a few lessons.
The major flaw of the series is that it’s hosted on Netflix and barely makes malicious comments about it despite being focused on the lives of people directly affected by the Capitalist mentality of the OTT corporation.
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.
