This piece contains spoilers for "The Last of Us," as well as discussions of sexual abuse.
HBO's adaptation of "The Last of Us" has not been afraid of getting dark with its reinterpretation of Naughty Dog's original game. While never going totally overboard and into cruelty for the sake of cruelty, it has been able to use its instances of disturbing violence to drive home its central point -- that morality in times of crisis isn't black and white.
To a certain extent, its latest episode, "When We Are In Need," follows this same thread. After recovering from a nasty stab wound, Joel (Pedro Pascal) tortures and kills two men, even after obtaining useful information from them, just to get back to Ellie (Bella Ramsey). While he did it for an understandable reason, Joel has once again crossed a moral line that he probably can never uncross. There is...
HBO's adaptation of "The Last of Us" has not been afraid of getting dark with its reinterpretation of Naughty Dog's original game. While never going totally overboard and into cruelty for the sake of cruelty, it has been able to use its instances of disturbing violence to drive home its central point -- that morality in times of crisis isn't black and white.
To a certain extent, its latest episode, "When We Are In Need," follows this same thread. After recovering from a nasty stab wound, Joel (Pedro Pascal) tortures and kills two men, even after obtaining useful information from them, just to get back to Ellie (Bella Ramsey). While he did it for an understandable reason, Joel has once again crossed a moral line that he probably can never uncross. There is...
- 3/6/2023
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
The half-life of radium-226, the toxic isotope touted as a miracle cure-all in the early 20th century and used in phosphorescent paint, is around 1,600 years. That of “Radium Girls,” the David-and Goliath story of a handful of young women taking Big Radium to court in the 1920s, is presumably much shorter.
In the two-and-a-half years since it premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, co-directors Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler’s dramatization seems to have lost quite a bit of whatever luster it might have once had. Scrupulously sincere in its approach and well-meaning to a fault in intention, the film aims for inspirational true story, but is sadly uninspired, and its relationship to real history is obscured by the schematic way it is fictionalized.
Playing characters who are an amalgam of the real heroines of the radium scandal, the film stars Joey King and Abby Quinn as sisters Bessie and Josephine Cavallo,...
In the two-and-a-half years since it premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, co-directors Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler’s dramatization seems to have lost quite a bit of whatever luster it might have once had. Scrupulously sincere in its approach and well-meaning to a fault in intention, the film aims for inspirational true story, but is sadly uninspired, and its relationship to real history is obscured by the schematic way it is fictionalized.
Playing characters who are an amalgam of the real heroines of the radium scandal, the film stars Joey King and Abby Quinn as sisters Bessie and Josephine Cavallo,...
- 10/23/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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