Tag: Netflix movie
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“Roma”: Alfonso Cuaron Finds Beauty and Definition in the Servant of His Youth
In Roma, Alfonso Cuaron’s masterful and beautiful film about the Mexico of his youth, particularly the household servant who helped raised him, Cuaron brilliantly connects (as he notes in an Empire magazine interview) “the personal scars with the socials scars”. This intersection where personal history and public history collide with memory gives Roma its sweep,…
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“Flavors of Youth” Explores the Essentials of Identity
Flavors of Youth points out how memory is essential to all identity. How it is the source of all art and creativity.
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“The Skin of the Wolf” Is Beneath Just Barely a Man
There is no explanation, no backstory just observation enshrouded in mythic layers of beautiful cinematography. Everything is left to interpretation, which is both besides the point and probably is the point.
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“Set It Up” Pretty Much Knows It’s a Setup
Set It Up is so smart that it almost attains singularity, just not enough for the average Netflix viewer to be unchill with it.