2020 | R | 2h 4min It’s admirable that filmmakers are trying to tackle life’s massive, apparently unanswerable questions. It takes courage to contemplate that yawning void. It’s happening a lot these days; Pixar’s “Soul” and A24’s “The Green Knight” are the most recent. But while the attempts are admirable, what of the results? What are the filmmakers’ intentions? Is it to nail the exact process whereby, as in the case of “Soul,” souls are selected to incarnate as humans on earth? To provide food for thought? It would have to be the latter, right? Because who really knows how this stuff works? While “Nine Days” (filmmaker Edson Oda’s debut feature) is allegorical, it works fairly well in terms of adding Oda’s two cents as to how these esoteric occurrences might roughly take place. However, much like the recent “The Green Knight,” it unfortunately breaks the first rule of show …
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