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Blue Jay (2016)
straight to the heart
I have just finished to watch it and I am completely overwhelmed by feelings right now. This movie hit me straight to the heart and I couldn't avoid to go back to my memories. The small and boring town, the old man of the shop, the same old habits. And the black and white that brings the illusion of seeing a story of the past, as it actually is. This is so authentic, you can easily feel the magic between two people who knows each other so deeply and for so long time that it seems like nothing has changed. But life sometimes is unfair, you miss a thing and everything takes a different road. Maybe a better one, maybe not. Who knows. One night to dive into the past. Then a deep breath, real life begins again.
American Honey (2016)
what a movie!
I couldn't choose a better movie to start my new year. When I saw the trailer for the first time ( yes I admit I must have seen it 10 times more then ) I was already captured, and my expectations weren't disappointed. This is a great portrait of a generation, it talks about beauty and hope through little frame of a road trip going around without a fixed destination, except for the pursuit of money and the ransom that comes with it. But what makes this movie so magical is the relationship between the two main actors. The tuning breaks the screen, we feel the intensity, the impetuosity, the joy of a stealthy young love, grew up in an 'hopeless place', as Rihanna's song perfectly suggests. The soundtrack is also amazing, well interrupted sometimes with calculated moments of silence. Last but not the least, I was completely enchanted by the cinematography.
Lion (2016)
less than I expected
I literally took ALL my family to the cinema because of my enthusiasm but the more the film was flowing the more it was going to the wrong direction. I admit I was pretty surprised in the first part. I didn't expect that the troubled events of the little Saroo would have had so much space. By the way, a good surprise. Sunny Pawar is absolutely perfect, and for all the first hour we are captured in his story full of suspense and fear, a realistic picture of the most chaotic India. But then we wake up, we put the head out of the sea and the little 5 years old Saroo now is 25 and has the beard. that's where I started to be confused. we get involved to his new life, he has a girlfriend, a bad relationship with his 'brother', a deep mother-child relation with his mum, and on the contrary a very undefined one with his father. But from here the rhythm of the story become more and more swell and slow, without going deeply in the middle of all grown up Saroo relations. the result is a very long second hour, quite boring and full of unnecessary parts. In this moments of confusion we find a little bit of hope while returning to India and we are given a very touching last five minutes. So my thoughts at the end is that this is a great and moving story, worth to watch but developed in a wrong and shallow way.