Beast Noir

It seems The Beast (La Bete (French)) is a movie that's very hard to describe. We have Lea Seydoux. Across 3 entirely different existences. And the doomed relationship with a man who is obsessed with her. And the pigeon that is the harbinger of death.

It is not easy to understand what this movie is about. But one thing is clear. There are certain memories that are in the minds of Leah. Well into the distant future. And the AI works at clearing off those memories, creating an unique noir fateful spectacle...A one-of-a-kind movie, hard to describe. This is not entertainment, this is stream of consciousness prose.

15.5/20

The Civilized Wild

 Wikipedia prefaces The Wild Robot as a survival film. I think it is a coming-of-age film. A robot – Rozzum (Roz) 7134 (Lupita Nyongo) is shipwrecked on an island wilderness. Looking for a controller, Roz figures out the ways of animals and their language too, but draws no empathy except from a somewhat conniving fox Fink (Pedro Pascal). An unlikely bond with a gosling – Brightbill (Kit Connor) – leads to the formal definition of a mission objective – to teach Brightbill to eat, to swim and to fly – in other words to be a parent. But bringing up a gosling much like bringing up a human child is no easy task, and both the robot regimen as well as the formative gosling undergo a makeover and find some true sense of purpose and lives well led. An interesting watch, expectedly heartwarming, good for a break, not a Dreamworks masterpiece

14.5/20