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2019USA★ 6.24.5 pt match
What ties these together is feeling powerless. The world both films live in revolves around fear of the outsider. Same energy: tense, bleak, escalating, and slow build to explosion.
The Beasts
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2022FranceLanguage: frDirected by Rodrigo Sorogoyen★ 7.5
Available in English: subtitled
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.
Themes and style
Tone
bleaktensehauntingquietly devastating
Pacing
slow burnescalatingslow build to explosion
Story
survivalunravelingsiege
Emotion
griefrageinjusticefeeling powerlessloyalty under pressure
Themes
class and moneycaught between worldsfear of the outsiderfamily wounds passed downold ways vs. new world
Feel
exhaustinggut punchquietly hauntingdiscussion starteremotionally wrecking
Violence
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