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I also love to watch documentaries with #The Making-Of movies behind the scenes of 2D-3D animation movies, and cool aftereffects as well as the thoughts behind the ideas, such as; Walt Disney movies, Star Wars, Marvel.
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An error has ocurred. Please try againPeople who are different and who dares to be so/can't do anything different, and are beautiful for it
It is about finding yourself... and daring to do things anyways when they are different, when it is "looked down upon." in society.
Non-blood families, friends, alternative families raising kids; such as no father but mother's brother or sister's stepping in very strong as a family sort of acting like an extra parent. etc.
Rich, white, cis gender, straight sexuality, males, beautiful people... fitting into the norms with your personality or interests, no disabilities, age -privilege.
And when you are blind to these things, and act like these people too- even tho you may think you are not, and better than your peers- and you still act like they "owe you" just bc you gave them something; things, shared time, "offered kindness"... You are not owed by ANYONE, more than you owe them either.
Even some parents act above their own children as if they should "owe them" to "give back", one way or the other, such as showing off "this perfect picture of their family.", even when they are not like that. They are not your dress-up doll. They are their own people.
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One Day (2024)
A playboy CAN also turn into a real, loving, loyal partner.
A player CAN also turn into a real loving loyal partner.
Like anyone else.
Although it might be more unlikely or highly unlikely,
or take a long time, and be a much harder process.
But when he FIRST and TRULY AND DEEPLY FALLS, he might be more loyal than anyone -(bc he never had any girl want to fight for him so hard and honestly for all of him, not just his sexual side.)
Him being a player, may possible "just" stem from being the result of how he grew up, or dealing with very traumatic things- as its a way of "dealing"/addicted to get away from his everyday life that is hurting.
But if he learns that women are not just a "thing you lay with,"
but also can contribuate to an emotionally and caring, etc.
An actual person.
& you can allow yourself to feel vulnerable,
maybe you haven't been able to not having had anyone
you can yet supported with like that.
Its just a matter of feeling seen, heard, and wanted.
For all of us.
We ALL want in our essenece to be wish to be loved,
it lays in our nature.
We all are just not ready, it's all about timing, and working on it.
And that few people may be an actual match together-
to find a real connections.
Thunder in My Heart (2021)
The struggle with trauma, and trying to un-learn it when it sits firmly in you
I think this is one of those few must watch tv series out there.
Something we rarely get to see as a theme in movies yet, let alone something we all kind of hide a bit about ourselves as there is a certain taboo about it still. So it is very good to see this topic be taken up.
It highligt the hardship of having trauma, and the struggles of trying to heal and allow yourself to have the good things in life, and being in a good relationship.
And the immense power of what real loving can have on you.
Someone who loves you very deeply, even so much that he has been waiting for her to com around to him for ears on end, as a very close friend of hers.
But your trauma stands in the way of beleiving they really could feel such a way about you, even when you know you love this person too.
So you sabbotage it for yourself- even though you want and need to hold onto this very deeply, caring, and healing love, as he truly protects her and is there for her in her hardships,
but she needs to take up her battles alone, on her way to healing, but as he is with her protecting over her although only in her daydreams- it helps her to o through her battles.
"You deserve to let go of all that is hurting you" And there is and will be people out there in the world who DOES love you. And you might even have it already, even with close friends- they can very much be your none-blood family.
Summary: Such a beautiful realistic take on trauma and healing.
The Little Mermaid (2023)
Nothing much new, but the ending is, and the live action movie quality
Nothing if hardly in this movie sadly ...until the very least part of the movie.
And those last parts are very important to remarke:
"Thank you for sharing me."
-"you shouldn't have to give up your voice, to be heard.
I will always be here for you, we all will."
although he is very sad to know he won't see you as much anymore.
But he comes to finally learn at last, that you must set free the people who you love.
Even as family, you don't owe anyone, no one owes anyone.
But what is also remarkable, is that it is probably the best live action movie made yet by Disney, it is so beautiful and professionelly made, not to say the least it is hard to make great animation aquality in 3D waters.
This Is Going to Hurt (2022)
Please give us a Season 2! It is real, honest, beautiful, tragic, and entertaining
This series is so good!! It surprised me just how much.
I almost watched it all in one go- if i could. I were so excited to watch more when I had time on my hands for the next days.
It is real, honest, beautiful, tragic, unique, and entertaining,
and it convinced me very much I might just have sat on the side lines with the characters listening in on their stories.
It it is from a behind the scenes- we don't normally get an idea /look inside of what that might look like, such as the health care workers in the hospitals of doctor's mental health and how they come to struggle inside their workplace.... AND their everyday life on the side that gets effected by their workplace as well.
It sheds light upon the very importance of the underestimated- underpaid- overworked- doctors and of other health care system workers....
that basically work themselves half to dead- some ever do in fact work themselves to death..... in order to keep other people alive and running........ they are themselves ...just humans, even if they come to convince themselves they can manage to juggle a whole lot of balls in the air all at once and still do a hell of a job, even when getting barely enough of sleep - but as all humans do, there is a limit to just how much you can handle... even with the most amazing doctors out there,
And the amazing work they STILL indeed do....its magical, and very tragic that this is indeed a VERY REAL reality to the day today of the huge struggles that should indeed not be this bad like it is, many countries lacking more working hands of more doctors and nurses around the public hospitals,
bc of their low work conditions.... and even though their pay is getting lower nowadays- and the private clinics might LOOK more rich and better, it is not necessairely the case indeed, but just sadly where they priotice their money than in the ACTUAL needed equipment for health care of the patiences when they need to get PROPER or QUALITY enough of possible operations or examinations.
Mrs. Fletcher (2019)
This tv series was surprisngly VERY good!
Wow this mini tv series so great!
It seems it easily has turned into one of my few favorite tv shows!
It is so full of realness of a slice of life of drama, when Eve come to discover she no longer wants to be her old self, and has a lot in her she has been holding back on,
sexualities, able to connect with this person she randomly meets but to her surprise the circumstance of the two are far from ideal...and she and him struggle to try and navigate although it clearly shows they are both feeling something strong between the two, the type you perhaps only feel rarely now and then.
I am so sad to see and wonder why this tv series won't be having a season 2? And I am afraid to see it might be late for a second thought on that since it was last made back in 2019?
I am still hoping there might come out a season 2 of this though!!
A Little White Lie (2023)
Finding yourself again, even when you completely forgot
This is actually pretty brilliant.
I think it might be about feeling/having imposter syndrome,
and as something artist most often have.
To that extend you end up locking yourself away in hiding for a long time, and eventually beliving what you may think of the worst of yourself...
that you forget and can't actually recognice yourself anymore.
Perhaps bc his books was written in such a way that it was a mix of reality and fantasy- that fantasy in the end is just another way we humans has made reality reflect back with other eyes/ways.
..in the end it shows that going outside again, and getting recognized for his work, for the forst time ever, and sharing and hearing thoughts of fellow writers of their own perspective on the world and writing, -it sort of made him able to grasp reality or actually enjoy getting back to reality again...
he found himself again.
What he enjoys and thrive in.
Royalteen (2022)
Why is there bad reviews?
It was a good movie,
but the ending doing the very last few mins felt rushed.
But this movie had focus on a very emotional ride, mature and emotional intelligence, as two people who come from complete different worlds collide as they figure out how much they are drawn to each other -how alike they are as persons, in their values and their view of the world, needing each being in a world that is very different from them.
It has a lot of depth. And it takes up norms to rid of typical judgment.
She's Gotta Have It (2017)
This show is of MUCH value! This is a gem. Don't mind the other comments.
I don't know why this tv series has so many bad reviews it is such a good series!
There is much character development happening here, while showing the very real struggle of being black, AND woman in America. It is very empowering.
And the struggle of all that combined with being a creative soul.
Who just yearn for being able to do what she loves doing,
despite the many odds being against her of also being in a society that dosen't exactly prioritize art and value it as much.
But as you will come to see, it brings people together, in many ways;
friends, family, new possible friends, political statements, love statements, empowerment; sexuality, body and mind positive, etc. It can capture beauty, it can capture darkness, it can capture different types of perspectives we are able to share together this way... etc. Etc.
And it can give a voice to those who don't have a voice- or who don't know how or aren't as well at speaking up.
This show is very artsy.
Not only is it about a painter but also about the other types of art and other artists around her, and those around her in here society she has grown up in and love, as well as her enjoying other's art, and such as celebration musicians such as "giving a shout out" great songs.
It is entertaining and funny.
Funny, wholesome, complicated characters and sometimes situations.
It is also...
Free and feminist.
As she has figure she is not necessarily a woman who wants to "be owned" or tie down to one particular relationship, but coming to admit she may thrive doing things a little different way than what most of society tells people to, especially as women.
As she enjoys letting herself be free sexually with her lovers that fulfills her. Also as she is a women basically married to her relationships with art as it craves and takes as much time committed if not more as a "full time" relationship would do. Such as many artist do experience.
Okuribito (2008)
A very beautiful story about death
This man who comes from a very different branch of work, becomes an encoffiner -performing a ritual to send the dead people off properly, and humanely. This is also for the sake of family, this evokes emotion and memory of them suddenly seemingly almost coming to "live up again.";
They shave them. Put makeup on to make them look less dead and alive again.
They wash them, this is their last bath before departure and is also a symbol of being re-born. They also change their clothing, it is all done in such a beautiful artistic way that it looks like an art form when they do this, they may also put something on them that reminds them of them being them; a favorite lipstick, a scarf they might have worn often, etc.
They also make this sort of art movement with their hands and arms, they touch and caress the person. This all helps the family to not hold back and get some relief from this, perhaps offering some sort of sight, a cry, to bring them to realization, and able to grieve. For them to almost make them seem alive again, one last time.
It is also about that we should normalize death more, that this is also just a part of life, a process, like any other we go through with life -it doesn't have to be something to feel disgusted about... everyone has to die at some point, we can't get around it.
And this doesn't have to be the end, but the gateway to starting their next new life somewhere else.
Turning Red (2022)
family coping mechanism of trauma passed down to the next generation
Oh my gosh this was good.
It is about family trauma traveling and inherited down to each generation from since Meilin, her mother, and her grandmother.
But Meilin was the one who were able to put and end to this pain, curse of the family, as she had learned to not become blind against this part in the family.
As a kid your are practically incoded to love and trust your parents at pretty much all costs.
But also when you don't know any better of what is right or wrong- since you've only had one type of family growing up- so, ever since you forever, you don't have a lot to compare to, to possible open your eyes.
But Meilin has got herself a group of incredible great friends, worrying for her as her mother is very controlling, and so her mother dosen
't even know of course she dosen't want to let down her family, so she dosen't even know of this herself, and her daughter dosen't know better, but bit by bit she also comes to realize-luckily more so with the help of her turning into the red panda and her mom's strictness aka. Comes out even more clearly.
Ending up humiliation her child in front of her schoolmates and friends multiple times, not realizing as Meilin hasn't learned to tell her mom "no" and to stand up for herself yet-
as her mom haven't learned that from her own strict mom, ultimately only ending up feeling that her role in this world would be to satisfy and not dissapoint her own mother;
and the same ends up happening to Meilin, but now as her mother says the same, she realizes the feeling has been effecting her too,
it has only been passed down and it wasn't real.
Like her new family of non-blood her friends tried warning her of this,
she realizes she needs to stand up for herself but struggles, and so she does tell her mother too, ultimately making them both realize and understand they have been manipulated and manipulating themselves and their daughters and therefore not true to themselves,
but pretty much only living for their mothers.
Like the say in the movie "it is ok to be there and help for the family, but also don't lose yourself in the process be there for yourself and do you meanwhile."
And so she goes out to adventure and discover who she is anew with her friend, and as she slowly grows to become an early adult.
A pretty smiliar thing happened in my familes as well, I have been supressing and thinking for the longest time, it was only me there was something wrong with and I wasn't worth loving, that I was some kind of monster inside me (but like Meilin -only because there was something inside me, a part of me intutively telling me I was not okay and there was something wrong but having a hard to to pin point what- just knowing I didn't feel heard) like Meilin, before coming aware of herself and her sourroundings.
That she dosen't exist to only please family, and she might as well never become perfect for what the family views are anyways- and because she is not like them it is pretty much impossible and therefore unhealthy,
everyone should be included and be enough for being themselves. Don't push your own ideals onto your family(-or any people for the matter) and learn to find enough in the things you do share and that little is better than having some kind of fantasy view and only hurting your relationship and yoruself ultimately.
And therefore the best thing you can ever do is to learn to trust that they will learn to trust in themselves that they will do will be well enough. And this is fine, better than trying to strive for being perfect of somewhat what is not natural.
Ojing-eo geim (2021)
Life... what is it about, what exactly?
Life is no longer any fun when you are too broke, but so it isn't either when you are too rich. Those two extreme worlds meet.
Money is not what makes life worth living, after all - could you do whatever it would take to achieve a big amount of money so you never would have to think amount making more money in your life?
The old man says, fun is what makes life worth living, when you are a kid you can spend hours and hours and completely forgetting the time, by playing fun games with your friends. When you are too rich those small things you had before that gave life pleasures, such as food, etc. Just wont reach anymore it won't be enough. -Do you lose motivation too much, when you have a table full of almost endless possibilities that you now no longer have to work for in order to slowly achieve?
But instead to just live in the present, have enough in the little things in life, and with good company?
They are just free to be, just exist, no stress, or... so that was a reality as a kid that is, according to this tv series.
Another man says: I am not a horse, we are not horses. For you to bet money on. Our lives are not for your entertainment. (so he did himself in the past as a way of an "income", ironic huh.)
When rich men get too powerful and too bored with life, when life is too easy; even so when one of them at least risked his own life more or less by participating in the game himself as well.
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
"Appreciate how rare the gift is."
"I want to protect it as much as I can." "Talent is so fragile and so rare." -this is so true, if you don't get a mentor in your life.
"And our culture does everything to crush it. It is a materialistic culture. It dosen't support art, language, or observation."
Even tho if they are great, they don't read. You worry that it is a lack of curiosity, a lack of reflection. No one has space for poetry.
=some people dosen't understand the depths of his talent?
A film about purpose of life.
Strange for many, bc it seems portrait of a psychopath. But in fact, it is just a pain or lonely song, it is a special film, for many reasons.
It's icky and both depressing how far she goes to make herself feel accomplished and worth something. But it is fascinating.
"I have a poem." aka. Indirectly: "I have a home." ? Aka. "I am here too." "Listen to me, see me."
"I have a poem." Why was that the most gut wrenching ending possible? Well, because from now own Jimmy will have those four words ignored. He'll be ignored by his too busy father, and shuffled from here to there by young teen babysitters just making a buck. And Jimmy's divine infused talent will be ignored. Worse, it'll be belittled.
Do I think Lisa was right to steal Jimmy away? No. But this movie isn't about right and wrong from a moralistic standpoint. It's making a bigger point about what we value in culture today. And it questions our diet of football, reality TV, and disposable trash experiences meant to pass the time.
Agree with Lisa. Sara Colangelo was trying to make you think about talent and skill and what really matters to you in your life. She was questioning the status quo in a controversial way that was meant to make you think. Did it? Or did you come to this page trying to figure out how the heck Lisa wasn't shot on sight at the end?
There was a time when a young tot named Mozart was primed and pandered to his every whim and need in his formative years today,
this talent is squandered and wasted in portentous anti-climax, how can anyone who is not a fan of art not absolutely love the message here,
it was well executed , well written , well acted and just came together beautifully. Yes I wish it was fleshed out a lil 'more , this would of made a great novella or mini-series , to get more poesy, to build the connection, to understand the backstory of the teacher to really bring everything together but we get the point , and its succinctness we are alive in its immensity, the pathos that would be are now writhing the abyss of bathos in our times... a supreme masterpiece.
She believes that we, as a culture, are a hollow husk and that we don't know how to appreciate the truly great things in life. Her children, her husband? They are lost to the banal things of this life, and are missing the greater beauties available to us. Lost in "smart" phones, interwebs, and television. And heck, I don't disagree with her, not even a little. And so she signs up for a poetry class, in the hopes of figuring out how to kindle exceptionality into her life again.
She makes a run for the border, to take him with her, or her with him? Why
To a high degree I believe it is an act of selfishness, bc she is not an artist herself but so deeply wishes to be...
She dosent even have any people around her, none of her family bur ordinary, although she sees the possible potentials;
They want something else, or rather maybe the culture of today is a blocker for them to become something bigger than just being able to exist in the world, doing a normal job that just pays the bills?
But why...does she try so hard? Why does it matter so much for her to become an artist? Or at least have someone around her that can
Were she can nurture their talents and -possible live through them? Or maybe she just needs to "prove the world wrong"
And make something out of live, thinking that he just needs someone to guide him correctly, a mentor that society dosen't provide-
But then again you ask yourself as he is only 5 and a half years old; does a kid even want that?
No they don't, they wouldn't even know what it means. Seeing it as her being unappreciated and unloved by Jimmy.
She was trying so hard to nurture his talent and he didn't even care.
His lack of awareness of his talent drove her away.
I wonder how many of us are oblivious to our talents if we applied ourselves.
And at the same time, her lack of awareness of him as a person ended up scaring him off. And for good reason.
She was infatuated with what he could of been. Almost using it for her comfort. Thinking she's doing a good deed.
The ending scene with him in the police car basically implies.... That he is shut out from the world, his voice won't be heard. And maggie 's character said it herself. Our culture would destroy the child's talent.
Her intentions were good, but misguided by attaching her own fulfillment to his talent, and her issues end up consuming her, which leaves this boy with no one to spark that creativity the he otherwise has in him.
With all that said, I'd like to think if I found myself in a similar situation, I would encourage the child to pursue his talent & perhaps speak to his parents about how special that talent is, but that is all I would really do. If the world saps his creativity, so be it. It isn't my responsibility, similarly to how it isn't the main characters responsibility, to preserve that talent.
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But then again, IS IT really not YOUR place to do something? Just bc it is not your own child? After all he is still a person, and will grow up to become an adult with how to deal with the world and himself in it.
What if he would become a devastated adult growing up bc he didn't get to develop his talents to a degree enough to be able to use it?
His parents not being supportive of his gifts, would definitely be to blame...
But would it have been better if he hadn't had no mentor?
I mean ofc the best option would have been if the teacher didn't take it into an obsession to this degree and just mentor him the best way she could in professional frames as a kinder gardener or keep doing suggestions, although her role here professionally in society wouldn't be too focused on nurturing talents- but just as a regular kindergarden teacher of just the standard primal skills to prepare him for the world of society.
For a child to be aware of his skills and abilities. They can be taught about so many things. It's wasted talent when they just sit around all day on their phone and play, and when growing older only learning standard work skills.
For most of the movie, we don't get a lot of exposition explaining why exactly Lisa is doing the things she's doing.
There really is no narration to indicate where Lisa is coming from. There are no big signs in the sky with arrows pointing to things she finds unconscionable. And so, if you watched this movie, and just came away with - whoa, what a MENTAL CASE! Lock her up! You missed like 80% of what this movie was trying to dialog about.
Basically the thing she is talking about here is that audience she watched the movie with, they saw the scene in the poetry club and guffawed at Lisa. And then the next minute, Lisa was sobbing in the bathroom with this five year old by her side.
So let me see if I understand what really happened here. Maggie played this role of Lisa, and she played her with a skewing, a bent, that believed that Lisa was true to her convictions. That she was well intentioned. That she was all in on these particular convictions. But when Maggie, the actor, watched this portrayal of Lisa, in a theater full of other viewers, and when she watched them respond with outrageous laughter, she was shocked. (Can I say that personally, when I saw this moment she is describing here, it literally took my breath away and broke my heart.) But Maggie? She says that we can't laugh at her. That isn't possible. Because we just can't know what her motivations are and what brought her to this point, and this conclusion. But that is the kind of world we live in right now. We guffaw at people as a matter of course. Sure, she had just abducted a child to go to this event. And yes, she'll even do worse later in the movie. But in terms of crimes that we advocate for in our other movie viewing experiences, we would do well to skew Lisa's direction as opposed towards say, any of Quentin Tarantino's protagonists' direction.
But maybe I've gotten ahead of myself here. Maybe you don't even understand Lisa at all. Maybe we should talk through her perspective a bit.
We don't have a ton to go on, but what we do have is about as concrete an example we could ever have wished for. At one moment in the film, Lisa is explaining to Jimmy's father that in ages past, when someone with stellar talent was found, they were heralded as a near god-like entity. Wunderkinds were celebrated and exalted in order to better all of humanity. Young artists, musicians, architects, poets, writers, would be snatched from obscurity and given absolute anything they desired in order to cultivate their talent. Sure, they would break every single child labor law we have today in their pursuit of this talent, but they'd be pampered all along the way.
This sound a bit barbaric today. But it was assumed to be normal yesterday. And the example Lisa gives is Mozart:
Even at the age of four, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart apparently absorbed everything to do with music with a tremendous appetite and seemingly without effort.
Not only did he already know how to play his first instruments, the piano and the violin, but he now composed his first piano concerto.
I mean. Come on. Six? Of course we would nurture that kind of talent today in the hopes of making it blossom. Wouldn't we?
Well, no. No, we don't. And that is the thing that has Lisa in a serious twist.
She is unwavering in her belief that supporting Jimmy, no matter what, is 100% the right thing to do.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Would give 5,5 stars. Here is why
The sequel did not surpass or align the qualities of the first movie of Venom. I expected much more from this film.
There is just nothing much new and exciting, unlike from the first Venom movie. With a plot that was almost non-existent, felt like it was pretty messy quite a bit all over.
It robbed the sarcastic "Venom" of much of the charm that made the original work. The entertaining elements, the humor and the symbiotic relationship of Eddie and Venom this time are under tests, which was alright enough in itself as it always seem to be testing them both, but to actually taking it so far as to leaving one another, it just didn't felt all that necessarily no adding anything to the relationship they already had.
And then there is the rather pointless character of Harrelson and his childhood sweetheart Frances, I just didn't really play into harmony with Venom and Eddie's stories.
One thing I was really excited about, was the promising teaser of a third Venom movie for the future around 2023? And the fact that Peter Park being part of it, already puts my expectations higher up there, which is something I will be looking forward to.
Vinterviken (2021)
A good movie because... (Why does it has this many low ratings??)
She loved him never the less of people presumptions/their reality of him was pushed upon her...she knew he was a good guy, he were just in a bad environment and was pushed into being in it by bad people. At the end he didn't kill the other guy who had taken away on of his most precious people, his best friend, and who has most liked saved his life coming to his rescue...ofc his world would have crashed down and to have his best friend killed right in front of his eyes. She immediately knows he isn't no bad guy as she comes rushing with one of his friends begging her to come, as he had not hurt anyone... Elisabeth knows him, and he dosen't want to hurt anybody. And they both need one another- that is what I got from the end of the movie.
...
Although the ending seemed kinda rushed. And that is kinda a bit too bad.
In my opinion the chemistry between the two weren't missing.
Here is why; They see the world for what it really is, they both do and that is a rare trait to have in this world, they don't see it as black and white.
They don't get sucked into their environmental cultures that hey grew up with... but keep true to themselves, despite the struggles.
Yes, Elisabeth does seem quite depressed through out most of the film, but that is quite understandable, can't expect someone to just get over a loss just because she falls in love, and I men she had JUST lost her mom.
There is her Grandmother, who dosen't care much or enough for her family but would rather want a "rich" materialistic life, this is serious, as this is why the dad and his daughters leaves earlier than expected from the summerhouse "trip".
Then there is her father wants her to act somewhat as her sister's mother babysitting her more often just because the dad finds it so important to make their big materialistic ends meet, of likes of the big house, etc. Not having much time for his daughters instead, even doing these critical moments of having lost their mom/his wife.
Elizabeth would rather have time for creating bonds... real bonds and be a teenager/young adult as she should be, I can't say there is no reason for her to not seem kind of "empty" of her personality, with all these things going around her head she has not power to deal with them, to have a say.
Her dance that she suddenly decides to do spontaneously...
I think was a moment of flourishing, her blooming a bit for a moment, feeling herself again- and maybe for the first time? It had some painful elements in there, but I also saw happiness, I think it was kind of meant to symoblize her current situation of her world.
She is only starting to grow to allow herself to be somewhat okay again, to find and feel warmth again as grieving is eternal when losing someone you love, it never really ends, but you can't also lose yourself entirely either to the dead... she is rebuilding herself slowly.
...
John John sees she is different from the other rich kids, and even from the other kids of his upbringing, she values what he can give her, what they can give each other, a real time.
John John.
Struggles being very close the criminal culture from were he lives, even though his mothers does indeed work hard so that he dosen't have to touch this side of the neighborhood, but as his friends are in it it can be hard, he is even "forced" into it once as makes a stupid action. And his mother's abusive boyfriend who is a cop, but an abusive one of the kind(showing us that we are indeed not always what we might look like presuming people as,) as he lies, corrupting to John John's mother about what had gone down between the two of them, twisting it to look like that John John had been the abusive one, being the bad guy here, forcing him to apologize, as he finds valuable items in John Johns room that he holds for a friend, and when the boyfriend had been the one who had slapped John, pushed him against the wall, dragged him, and pushed him against the floor and laid a knee on his neck/throat, not hesitating one bit... being the abusive one, and very, that is.
Then there is this one, and it could be unnecessary to mention, but it would definitely have been interesting to have had discovered more of the plot of Elisabeth's dead mother. As this seems to play a big role into her life.
Not much gets resolved in the movie, but so does neither a lot of situations in reality of the real world, sometimes live just goes on, it must go on, ...you have to let go, and go on with these new realities. There is no "rewards" for anything here. (I kinda wanted to put this on here as it seemed kinda worth it to mention, as I read someone wrote this one, seemingly questioning it quit a bit of why there was not many "closed endings". This is my viewpoint of it. Take it however you want is as.)
But never the less,
I am not completely convinced by their "love story", as there does seem to be lacking a bit more information of both of their personalities, of what has otherwise been shown to us, "What more had drawn them closer to one another"?
But maybe there was just not much more needed, maybe it dosen't always have to be very deep, other than what that they saw the world for- what it is and their firm grip on how their believes on how they wanted to live in it.
After all John John did jump in the waters for a stranger, not a lot of people would have done that indeed, but John John did and not even hesitating for a second, it does show just how big his heart is, even with people of seemingly being complete oppesites of each their worlds, kind of looking like the "enemy" of them, as they have sooo much and they have so little, compared. They clearly struggle in their world. It is hard to meet extreme worlds for many people.
Even people of the rich world can end up too materialistic and getting numbed feelings of reality.
But John John sees equal value of all people here, never the less.
Collateral Beauty (2016)
So glad I watched this movie!
Incredible movie... So well put together perfoming the abstract ways of death, time and love... truly heartwarming and a must watch slice of life.
Remember "sometimes you can be/need someone from the outside, to change your/their perspective on life. You can open their eyes just but a simple phrase.
And what truly beautiful acting, as expected from these great actors, one of the greatest actors ever Will Smith.