We were inspired to make
the film by the injustice happening to Anna's home birth midwife, Agnes Gereb, who had been imprisoned and at the time of filming was under house arrest and facing multiple criminal charges (and even today, four years later, Agnes is still facing multiple charges).
Not exact matches
The Guy Fawkes mast is worn
by V, the
films protagonist, a man who fought against
injustice and in the end (spoiler alert), sacrificed himself for the movement.
Deadpan, the
film allows us to register the difference between T'Challa and Erik as an African and an African American — Erik being burdened
by the traumas and
injustices of American history in a way T'Challa is not.
To an outsider, the rule that forbids a widower from raising a child alone feels like a cruel
injustice and despite being made
by a relative outsider (Weinstein is Jewish but not Orthodox), the
film doesn't linger on outrage.
Miyagawa and Takemitsu contribute once again, and although the first half of the
film setting up the pair's flight is a bit rote and conventional (featuring far too many plot devices advanced
by one character clandestinely overhearing the conversation of another), the movie gets its blood boiling during the second half, which depicts the
injustice of their plight and the rage of Iwashita's family, who want to kill her for her shameful misdeed.
The
film centers on a beautiful, strong - willed woman, who, frustrated
by ongoing
injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire — a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War.
In a year that has been marked
by women's solidarity and greater awareness of
injustices towards women, it means a lot for our
film to be recognized.
Ford was the brother of Yance Ford, the director of this
film, which is the story of how a tragic loss followed
by an
injustice can ripple outward for decades, a shock wave that never stops reshaping a family.
This last is best exemplified
by the «Delirium» section featuring Christian Slater as Joe's beloved dying father and it is remarkably affecting, showing von Trier's astonishing ability to manipulate the tone of his
films and still remain coherent: here he is completely un-ironic, completely serious, employing no sly wink, only a finely channeled fury at fate, and perhaps God, for the unbelievable
injustice and indignity of death.
Journalism, which is the
film's central focus, should seek out and bring to light the
injustices perpetrated or aided
by the systems within the public trust.