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The Lie (2018)
warning : this one will haunt you
Especially if you have children
Spoiler
you will ask yourself each and every step, "what would I do?" "What if that were my child?"
you will hate this girl;
you will be discusted with her father, too easy on her, and then her mother suddenly too harsh with him.
You will despise her friend's father, for scaring their daughter,
but feel torn because you know she deserves it, and worse...
but then you'll also come back to his anguish and your anger at her will become sorrow for him.
Like a bumper car ride on steroids you're going to feel it all. You'll be jerked forward and back and sideways. You'll want to vomit and cry and moan.
You'll keep hating her
and then weeping for her broken parents,
her callousness and coldness so bladelike,
their life so shattered and destroyed.
You'll feel their abject desperation,
and then... you'll see it played out on a bloody road.
You're there in their heads,
in their numbness of emotion,
their frozen hands as they exhausted, clean the blood off the car...
to
save
their
murderous
daughter
then, yes only then, all hell breaks.
And you're suddenly forced to despise the idocy of teenagehood; the magnitude of that hellacious agony smashes you and the parents. Right in the face with flaming feces.
You'll decide once and for all, in all your numbness and fear and horror, that she is a sick, worthless girl
until
suddenly
you finally see and understand HER agony
and
how our children mortally wound us, and how we wound our children.
It's an awful, agonizing movie, SO well acted, SO well written, SUCH a well directed movie. It's as perfecr as a movie could be.
Blackbird (2019)
Perhaps because I just walked this journey
Perhaps it's because I just walked this journey... twice in the last 3 years, but I find this to be VERY true to life at telling how family systems relate internally to death and dying. I could see the personalities of each individual, feel their truths as their pain was revealed. This is a funny movie, a movie that will piss you off; it will warm your heart, surprise you and finally, it will make you cry and smile. It's DEFINITELY worth seeing, and with someone you love, and alone, and then again.
Homeless for the Holidays (2009)
What You Want for a Holiday Lesson May be this
While it's definitely a grade B movie, it's got all the sentiment and family style hilarity (okay, hilarity for kids, chuckles for adults)
Don't discount the incredible moral lessons here. Not preachy at all, but come a nice full circle with a valuable message.