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Twenty minutes was too much. I sat down to watch the highly praised Son of Saul (2015, Hungary), not really wanting to, but still considering the film one to see. Its subject isn’t easy viewing. It is difficult to watch. Son of Saul is set in the Auschwitz concentration camps of World War II. They…

There is no place like home, even when space and time are obstacles A home is what the main character in a story is looking for, but this key character starts life in a movie with a sense of ‘home’. Say the main character is all cozy, comfortable, at peace. Eating pizza from the shop…

The Joker, Darth Vader, Hannibal Lecter all wear masks. Their masks disguise the real self. In The Dark Knight (2008, USA), The Joker reveals what happened to him when he was a child to become an underground criminal. He then put on a mask. He is not only physically altered (a permanent ‘smile’), but emotionally…

The Huntsman Winter’s War (2016, USA) is a medieval fantasy, that continues the narrative of Snow White and the Huntsman (2012, USA). Challenging first act The prominent character, Queen Freya, isn’t sympathetic, at first. Freya cannot have love in this life so turns into the Ice Queen. She rises up an army and overtakes her sister’s…
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