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Kiri (2018)
The ending
I think it was incredibly well written and with brilliant acting from all.
I was initially disappointed but it makes sense. When you think of the justice system and the inequality when it comes to how people are viewed by the justice system, things really can go any way, just like the ending of this film. Look how quickly even the black police officer believed Kiri's father was guilty even when they proved they got separated, how easily she accepted the foster mother's fake version of events and how quickly the investigation into her family was dropped. Even she bought the stereotype of the innocent white family and the criminal black person.
The real ending and closure comes from the audience knowing the truth. Doesn't really matter that the characters or the fake public learn the truth. In real life, there are flaws in the legal process and especially in human nature meaning natural errors in the legal process. So plenty of people of all races do get jailed/framed for things they didn't do, serious crimes like murder and some will never be able to prove their innocence especially if black. Plenty also commit crimes others cover up or don't discover and a young boy who's lost his sister and who will lose his father and potentially mother if she gets overcome by mental ill health from the truth, it makes sense he wouldn't feel he could say anything. It all makes sense the writer wanted us to wonder what happened next, wonder if it really was an accident or murder because life is crazy and unfair and anything is possible; both fairness and truth and both injustice and hidden truths.
Time of Death (2013)
Terrible ending
I found it quite boring, it was pathetic how the lead investigator slept with this guy she just met like it was no big deal, is that what we feel is acceptable in modern society? If not what put that in the film? Normalising a total lack of morals of self- respect. And the killer should not have been killed. Those guys raped and killed her sister, she killed them and then the police killed her; three wrongs do not make a right. So in the end BOTH sisters were treated like they were worthless. If the police had spent less time messing about with the last guy to survive they would have caught her and she wouldn't have got shot. That woman felt an immense lot of pain from what she witnessed and carried around with her her whole life and the scriptwriter gets her killed off? Totally wrong.
Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986)
Very boring
All I have to say is that I found the movie very boring. I expected to see one of the best anime films I've ever seen and I simply forced myself to watch it until the end. There wasn't a single moment that I was moved or gripped by the storyline. I didn't find it humorous either.
The most entertaining part was when Pazu was watching Sheeta floating down to earth and it went downhill from that point.
I think kids between 6 to 11 might enjoy it but as a 22 year old I was very, very bored throughout.
Maybe I find it dull because it was made in 1986 and I've seen Nausicaä of the and Princess Mononoke first. Maybe if I watched them in reverse order I would have enjoyed this because I just felt I was watching a very poor version of what I'd already seen before (well the main themes of the story). And it also felt predictable.
Big, big disappointment.