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Remember Sunday (2013)
Made a grow man cry
I watched a TV and this just caught my attention how sweet and intriguing this coupe was. It kept me glued to the screen. The story, the casting, the setting... I don't remember when I watched a film that made me feeling like this.
I was truly moved, touched and teared. Everything about it was so sweet and also heartbreaking, but in a good way at least. Molly is such a sweetheart, it's unbelievable and Gus is... sincere to the bone.
Well I ended up purchasing this film for future watching. I know I will return to it for many many times.
I wholeheartedly recommend this film for everyone! Especially for couples and families - spend some quality time together and maybe you'll learn what's the most important in life - again.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Pure fantasy with some Jewish & nazi analogy
I went to the theater without any expectations. It's been long since I watched anything from Burton (last being Sweeney Todd), but was quite surprised by what I've found. It was a rich fantasy movie with beautiful cinematography, dreamy music and striking Nazi & Jewish connections. So strong that it left me deeply moved.
The following isn't much of a spoiler, but my interpretation of analogies that I've found.
The Peculiar children are the Jews, hunted by the monsters - Nazis. It starts in Poland, where WW2 officially began, tormenting the rich and respectful Jewish families.
Grandpa was a Jew that survived the Holocaust. He became a Nazi hunter himself - and that was his special-peculiar talent (as a side note - Jews used to have special Nazi hunters. Thanks to them number of Nazi fugitives after WW2 have been reduced). He could see the Hollows (another name-hint for the Holocaust) and fight them, just like his grandson Jake. However, Grandpa died by one of the fugitives that he failed to find.
In film, the eyes are being consumed by the torturers, under direction of deranged mind of Baron. Nazis used to take the eyes out of many captives that were tortured in the concentration camps. One of the infamous doctors that instrumented so many horrific deaths was Dr. Mengele (aka Dr. Death) and his psychopath followers. There's a striking resemblance between Baron and all those experiments that Nazis performed on the people in the camps.
And finally, I felt that those children actually died and the Home itself was a camp of some sort, but Miss Pergrine found a "loop" to save them before disaster and to keep them living in a day, preserving what they truly are.
The film gets a lighter tone near the end. I kind of didn't expect that, but I'm glad it did. Because of the strong Holocaust analogy, I think it would've been far too hard to take. That's just not Burton's way. In the end it feels more airy, weird, humorous and bizarre. Above else, it's a pure fantasy story with witty and bizarre characters. A Burton signature film that takes you to another world and time. It's a masterpiece and the best I've seen from him since Corpse Bride & Big fish.