Monos

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🎙️ EPISODE 455: 04.28.22 This movie served as a good counterpoint / juxtaposition to another one I watched just before it: The Last Black Man in San Francisco. While that one felt a certain obligation to retreat back towards more grounded, contextual movie elements, Monos leans into mood / aesthetic but seems to lack an overall point (beyond, you know, the horrific reality of life in some faraway places that we all sort of know exist but try never to think about it). There are some really inventive shots and camera work and an uncompromising embrace of oblique storytelling. By the end, however, you'll be forced to reckon with the point you didn't see or neglected to see, perhaps willfully or perhaps not: that there is no point. The vast VAST majority of us live in a constant state of denial to atrocities like this. Not tying the action to any concrete real world events has been done so purposefully. This could be anywhere. It seems far away but give it a little more time. The kids are NOT all right.

CHRONOLOGICALLY
⫷ EPISODE 454 - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 456 ⫸

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Monos is a 2019 internationally co-produced war drama film directed by Alejandro Landes, written by Landes and Alexis Dos Santos and produced by Fernando Epstein, Santiago Zapata, Martin Solibakke, Cristina Landes and Landes himself. It stars Julianne Nicholson and Moisés Arias. The film follows a group of teenage soldiers assigned to watch over a hostage. It was released on September 13, 2019.