"Opus" Is Fun But Doesn't Know Its Own Motivation
Mark Anthony Green was unable to connect all of the pieces in his debut feature film, leaving Opus as a middling entry in an already oversaturated genre.

The documentary was created during a charity expedition that was organized to help the last inhabitants of Chernobyl. It presents the life of people who never accepted the enforced evacuation, that was ordered after the Chernobyl disaster. They live on a poisoned ground despite all the restrictions and hardships.
Mark Anthony Green was unable to connect all of the pieces in his debut feature film, leaving Opus as a middling entry in an already oversaturated genre.
This little Netflix film was very inspirational. It passes the Bechdel test, and features a different worldview with rural Indian representation.
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“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.
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