Posts in Cinema
(Marquis)ette: When the people can read, they will be ashamed to understand

Woe to you, my Colin! Why didn't you heed my pleas for abstinence? Now your brilliant intellect has been reduced to bruises. While you regain the spirit of yesteryear, silence! The libertine has to know herself as such, before setting off. Silence! Your suffocation was to precipitate the death of the lycaon. He tied a knot over you himself, and compressed —marquisette, marquisette— your neck! In his cowardice, perhaps mediated by a gentle kiss of a golden fleece (or les Malheurs de la vertu), he homologated you to the Patriarch. I know I don't deserve you, my Colin!

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Us, who?

Do we execute Adelaide on the fusillading wall for wanting to escape from that prison of iterative babbling and vexatious spasms, or do we condemn Red to be hanged for pretending back what rightfully belongs to her? Can Adelaide be judged selfish as she escaped from the underworld just as a child? Does Red's awareness “destined” her to lead a massive political project, which would allow the reactionary defense to be equalized and try to correct the structural inequalities of society? Are we still looking for good and bad, guilty and innocent? Let's evoke, again, its new immortal monologue: Once upon a time, there was a girl and the girl had a shadow...

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Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku, 万引き家族), or the death of the Tooth Fairy

Therefore, it is infertile to lecture on the intensity degrees of filial love, a fact that anguished Nobuyo deeply. Furthermore, it is a futility to aspire to quantify if the family that has been given to us, arbitrarily, is more loved than the one we choose, coming to it long after birth. For a child of Yuri’s or Shota’s age, anyone can be family if they receive from them an affective and respectful treatment... anyone. Even a thief.

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