R | 1h 36m | Thriller, Rom-Com | May 19, 2023
So here’s the dilemma: Our publication would like to offer uplifting fare—my particular beat being cinema. And yet The Epoch Times is also a legitimate bastion of traditional journalism; we need to be able to report on all kinds of stuff.
However, we live in time where spiritually uplifting art—and especially uplifting cinema—is not, shall we say, necessarily at the forefront of the minds and intentions of the world’s current crop of filmmakers.
And so the tightrope one is required to walk is to figure out a way to talk about what’s out there, about what the film can or cannot do for our readership, and salvage, or glean, some kind of helpful insight, treading a fine line between fiery condemnation on the one side and censorship on the other, and hopefully not get into a situation like Strother Martin’s line from “Cool Hand Luke”: “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.”…