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Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka (2023)
Miyazaki Surrenders His Art to All of Us
The imagery that completely stuck with me is when things overwhelm Mahito. From the frogs, to the pelicans, the warawara, the fish guts, and the parakeets. And Mahito's reaction is not even fight or flight. He stays still as if frozen and completely unable to react.
And that's maybe why it was important for Mahito to know that forgetting is normal. His feeling of loss and grief and the feeling of having to adjust to changes in his environment may be overwhelming and maybe a solution is trying to forget.
The granduncle is Miyazaki himself. He tries to find someone who can continue his legacy but in the end completely accepts that the worlds that he built and the stories he has told may crumble and completely be forgotten. And that is one truth that an artist will find hard to take.
Foe (2023)
Foe's Ideas are Interesting but Labored
Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal deliver riveting individual performances in this film about love and marriage in an uncertain world. But its sluggish storytelling may be one of its downfalls when an hour into the film feels like its been 2 hours, Its sci-fi ideas explore how a loved one can be replaced by AI and it is interesting. And the ideas had a lot of potential. But the film felt like a mess overall.
Somehow the film opens a conversation on our relationship with Earth as if its a marriage. Would it be easy for us to go on loving a possible "replacement" when the Earth is dying.
The cinematography feels inconsistent. There are visuals that look great but some scenes just looked too dark.