It’s difficult to view movies of such nature with open-minded curiosity. But somehow, the individuality and ruggedness of Michael Fassbender’s character, Brandon, makes it axiomatic. Especially when held under the same breath and torch as his sister, Sissy’s (Carrey Mulligan) life. In Steve McQueen’s “Shame,” the story circles around the life of a...
Coen Brother’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’s third installation “Meal Ticket” is dreary to those who can bear it. It is a spectacle of being too attached to one’s own affliction; as it is a reminder of one’s detached sense of humaneness when putting up against the need to survive. In the “Meal Ticket,”...
We consider the flow of time to be infinite – filling a void that runs its course with every generation, every birth, and every death. The physical aspect of time is body seen through the years, growing in size, dexterity, speed, and strength. The readiness of time is anything but ambiguous. However, the flow...
It’s difficult to label this movie as something that provokes an easy laugh. Rather it is the kind of movie that forces you to have a peculiar or uncharacteristic reaction that’s completely unnecessary, to begin with. And this aspect is the whole and sole of why Margot At The Wedding caught me off guard. Besides...
Leo Tolstoy wrote in his beautiful work War and Peace, “Everything depends on upbringing.” A child’s personal identity, biological and physiological, unique and gentle – the years that create long and inevitable passages of perspective – are found and lost right from the start. It is a part of a metaphorical maze, that a...