A vocation born out of a horror. The surgery is the answer, not a speech.
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The review
The boy sees a teacher blinded in the street. The man spends his life learning how to put a cornea back. The film is earnest and sometimes glossy, and the glossy does not erase the line from the street to the operating room. A child who only hears 'follow your dream' can watch this and see a dream that is actually a debt to someone else's eyes.
A family can watch it. The Revolution scenes need a parent in the room. The charge is to treat a skill as a way of repairing the world, not as a personal brand. If you have a craft, aim it at a person who cannot pay you back in applause.
Worth an evening. The check is not the prize. A house, and the man the son is going to be, are.
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The review
A father dies and the insurance money arrives in an apartment that is too small for the people in it. The son wants to invest in a liquor store and become someone the check can make him. The mother wants a house. The sister wants a school. The daughter-in-law wants the marriage to survive the son's idea of himself. A man from the neighborhood they are moving into offers to pay them not to come. The offer is the country's sentence, and the film does not blur the man's politeness into innocence.
This is one of the few pictures of the decade I would clear a weeknight for without a hedge. Watch it as a family argument before you watch it as a document. Ask what the son thought the money was for, and what his mother knew it was for. The answers are a stature and a house. The film is on the side of the house, and it is right. Older children can sit through it. The yelling is the sound of people who are not done with each other.
