Of all the films I have seen over the past year or more (which are admittedly few comparatively as The Wife & I are quite discriminant with our rare amount of leisure time, mostly choosing independent & foreign films) this one easily had the most impact us both.
Much has already been written about the film’s six year old heroine, Quvenzhané Wallis. Justly so, but the story she so deftly brings to the screen is incredibly powerful. As much as we may try to separate ourselves from our primal origins, choosing instead to live in a self-aggrandizing illusionary, Matrix-like belief that we as species have ‘evolved’, the film challenges such hypocrisies as it displays how easily, such as a time of natural disaster, we regress to our primordial origins. The regression I speak of is that of the ‘modern, so-called civilized’ group who only react to the suffering of those around them when it is convenient & self-serving. The heroes are those that shun such delusion, & live with the understanding that we are part of nature, not outside of it.
This may be a polarizing film to many.
My advice is, if you don’t become totally engrossed within the first 15 minutes, don’t bother with the rest
Much has already been written about the film’s six year old heroine, Quvenzhané Wallis. Justly so, but the story she so deftly brings to the screen is incredibly powerful. As much as we may try to separate ourselves from our primal origins, choosing instead to live in a self-aggrandizing illusionary, Matrix-like belief that we as species have ‘evolved’, the film challenges such hypocrisies as it displays how easily, such as a time of natural disaster, we regress to our primordial origins. The regression I speak of is that of the ‘modern, so-called civilized’ group who only react to the suffering of those around them when it is convenient & self-serving. The heroes are those that shun such delusion, & live with the understanding that we are part of nature, not outside of it.
This may be a polarizing film to many.
My advice is, if you don’t become totally engrossed within the first 15 minutes, don’t bother with the rest
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