Post #3759023
2026-06-02 06:48 UTC
Dheepan (2015)
Refugees from the Sri Lankan civil war, strangers posing as a family, start to build a life in France until they are threatened again by the gang warfare around them. For a movie with the unlikely shared inspiration of Montesquieu and Straw Dogs, I really liked it!
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@attoparsec@clacks.link 2026-06-18 01:22
I, Daniel Blake (2016) It sometimes gets a bit too close to "deserving poor" rhetoric, but otherwise this is a very good portrayal of people falling to precarity as the bureaucracies supposed to be a safety net watch, unmoved. Nothing too harrowing, but a couple scenes are really going to stick with me, just because of their heartbreakingly simple honesty.