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La bête (2023)
Plastic dolls burn, porceline dolls crack; to kill or not to kill
Our current world appreciates speed and fervor, recent AI technology is used as an optimization tool over processes controlled by humans; in the movie's future controlled by AI, humans, on the other hand, are purged(modified) by the AI to optimize the overall societal system. A modestly clever idea from the writer. This is how the movie begins and this is the tool through which the movie justifies using time jumps and different worlds, without being too incoherent at face value. As the movie develops, and as the main point starts to show itself, this minor point plays no further important role, however.
The main premise is something very human: to find peace, we need to live with our past and make peace with it in the present. Whatever trauma might have happened, say in a relationship, which is the playground of the movie, without wholefully dealing with it and incorporating it to be a part of the narrative that makes us who we are, we are stuck in an unescapable pain that continues from day to day. Different persons have different ways of dealing with trauma, some kill the part of themselves that causes the pain, while others try to learn to live with the suffering.
To spell it out, the beast equals whatever we avoid and need to face in life. The movie shows two persons facing their own beasts and their different ways of incorporating the beast coherently into their present lives. One of them kills the beast, the other tries to live with it.
It is a clever idea to make these two persons their others beasts, as is often the case in relationships, and to climax the movie by showing their different ways of dealing with their beasts to be incompatible.
La chimera (2023)
Finding peace
The movie explores several characters of whom most in some way or another have something missing from their life: for the mother, its her safety and in particular the safety of her children; for the tomb raiders, its money and perhaps excitement; for Arthur it is the love of his life, a person permanently lost to the other side -- death -- whom he symbolically tries to connect with by opening tombs. Its a simple but beautiful idea from the screenwriter. While the first set of problems, that is chimeras, given to the supporting characters surrounding Arthur, are at least in principle solvable through luck or work, or even if these chimeras or problems remained unsolved, even then, life would continue as usual, however, Arthur's lost is qualitatively different. The movie builds towards the fact that only a new love or death can set Arthur free. In the end Arthur samples a new love, but still find himself looking for the love of his life. The redemption comes through his death, or there is no redemption in this life, this is left for the viewer to decide.