"Through a wounded pigeon's capture and liberation, a time-worn metaphor, SHOWING UP drums into audience life's vicissitude and a philosophical Weltanschauung of balancing expectancy and acceptance of what life sets in store for you. What mostly fascinates Yours Truly is the film's depiction of Lizzy and Jo's relationship. Jo represents a more successful version of Lizzy, habitually takes her for granted but casually maintains a peaceful surface with her, and their rivalry never reaches the boiling point, the expected the-worm-will-turn moment never transpires, at the end of the day, a tacit reconciliation feels anticlimactic, but that's what others Reichardt from cinema sensationalists, art imitates life is the tenet she abides by, Jo's barking is worse than her bite, that is the case with most human beings."
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