marinoe-pl Reviews

What Is a Woman? (2022)

Not that bad yet not that good

[6/10 · 12 July 2022]

Matt Walsh conveniently forgot to ask "terfs" for definition of the woman. People like Kathleen Stock or J. K. Rowling certainly would be able to provide an answer.

Like Grains of Sand (1995)

awkward teenagers

[8/10 · 30 September 2016]

I have seen a few movies by this director, this one is one of his best. This movie portrays a group of friends and classmates. There is Ito, unfortunate gay in love with his straight friend Yoshida. Kanbara is so called 'funny guy'. Shimizu is Yoshida's insecure girlfriend. Aihara is a rape victim, Yoshida somewhat falls for her. And there are the minor characters, like Ito's divorced parents, male and female bullies among the classmates. Bullying was showed really well, felt very real, especially among the girls. There are no saints among the characters, all main characters are doing stupid or even nasty things. They aren't evil, they are indeed awkward and confused, sometimes it makes you cringe. Movie is a little long and for a moment I was worried it doesn't go anywhere, but in the end all motives were tidyly closed. It felt like real Japan, it felt like real troubled youngsters.