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The Brothers Sun (2024)
The good guys?
This is still a drug dealing, human trafficking, money laundering, loan sharking, criminal gangster family. The good guys do not win in the end.
The show makes the older son, the killer and trained assassin, sympathetic through his baking interests. He is a victim of what his parents chose his life to be, but in the end he chooses the assassin life freely. Just like mom becomes the ultimate crime lord.
The people fighting for the freedom of trafficked people are also murderers. Good intentions don't negate evil behaviors.
It was entertaining, and not to be taken too seriously, but I never forgot the protagonists were not good guys.
Whiplash (2014)
The abuser wins
The abuser is vindicated when the next Charlie Parker emerges. This is not a good message about how to teach.
Adoration (2013)
Not enough exploration
Well done. Well acted. But it is all events without exploration of those events. There is not enough dialog to explore how characters are reacting to their situation. At one point the boys fight, one trying to drown the other. The cause of the fight is never explained or explored. People get hurt. Relationships are damaged. But the film doesn't explore how the main four characters feel about the damage they've caused. The male actors seem to cast for their bodies not their acting abilities. Ultimately disappointed with characters that are depicted as apathetic, remorseless and selfish.
Tin Man (2007)
Set Design
The only thing I liked, even loved, about this awful film (acting and script included) was the set of Queen's frozen over palace. It was done in Art Nouveau. The windows are spectacular! The wall decorations are breath taking. There are great details hidden everywhere in the room - like the bed. Excellent! set and very rare to find anyone doing such great Nouveau these days. Any information on who designed that set?
My great disappointment in this film was Zooey acting. For the entire 6 hours she was stiff, robot like and devoid of emotion. She doesn't seem to feel anything. Even when her robot parents are revealed - she move very quickly to looking for her "real" parents. Guess what you writers - the people who raise you ARE YOU REAL PARENTS!!!
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Falsely advertised
I went to this film with my 7 year old expecting to see something like Narnia. That's what the commercials showed - magical creatures, enchanted lands, beautiful castles. But those fantasies, which are the only parts of this film that are advertised, only make up about 20 minutes of footage. The rest of the film is about bullies, child abuse, a distant father and DEATH! When Leslie died I was ready to take my son (and myself) out of the theater, but I decided that may be more traumatic.
My point here is - the advertising of this film is very misleading. It has little to do with magic. It is a film based in real life with real life problems. It is suitable for OLDER kids.