Just a back from seeing the film Lion. I sobbed my heart out. There should be a five minute black out at the end of films like that, where they have very loud music playing so everyone can sob. There were so many people sobbing in the cinema that people started to laugh. The emotions are very very close. A very fine line. The little boy should have won an Oscar. It is the only film I've seen and wanted to do something about the situation at the end of it. My friend had been to see I Daniel Blake the night before. 'Devastating' she said, because it was true. The director is a Dickens of our time, reflecting back at us how the system is broken, and how we need to break those who keep it the way it is. Brexit and Trump may not be the right answer but they have broken the wrong ones.
So what next week? Manchester by the Sea, Beauty and the Beast...we either have nonsense super hero films or brittle brutal reality. Dreams, denial and reality.
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