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Fall (2022)
Astoundingly awful
It's hard to sit through a movie when characters make incredibly awful decisions based on clichés. No one "moves on" from grief. It's not necessary to "conquer fears" to keep grief at bay. Those are horrible premises to begin with but then you add that Hunter is just a bad, manipulative friend and Becky is fragile and they foolishly do what? Climb a cell tower which means climbing a LADDER?
Girl, please. You used to rock climb and have perfectly good equipment to go do THAT but instead this insipid movie was about about two women making bad choice after bad choice and called it a good thing. It's insulting to your intelligence to watch this. I'm super curious about the cell phone battery life and some of the tech here that's way too advanced for people who decided to do such a stupid thing.
Don't do it. You'll be so mad that you did. (Unless finger pointing at the screen to asinine characters is your thing. In that case, get your friends together and shout at the screen the entire time to drown out the dialogue and have yourselves a blast. Include good snacks so the night's not a total waste.)
13th (2016)
DuVernay presents best film of 2016
This is the best movie of the year. Ava DuVernay elegantly and simply shot, 13th refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States." The loopholes in our own amendment are what have allowed the systemic race in the prison system to thrive.
It paved the way for the 1994 Federal Crime Bill, implicates ALEC as a dangerous political lobbying group that provides sample bills, and uses our own history against us. That's not a criticism: she is right and brilliant to do so. The documentary explores the growth industry of prisons and CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) which stands to profit and encourages lawmakers to keep their prisons full for the labor they provide our capitalist society.
This film explores human rights violations and is an indictment against a harmful system of the prison industrial complex. You won't leave this film not remembering which amendment did this or who has stood to gain from its expansion. This is a love letter to Black and Latino Americans who have been affected, as well as their families, to say "I know how we got here". Every high school should require watching this film.