Jasmim Talks Cinema

Isle of Dogs - An Important and Futuristic Allegory about our Modern World  I turn my back On man-kind Frost on window pane.  A crisis descends upon society. A charismatic orator appears in the public eye with a solution. This orator exploits the gullibility of the general population and scapegoats a defenseless and voiceless minority, blaming it as the origin of the crisis. He proposes mass incarceration and deportation until specialists can figure out a solution to the problem. This is a very shortened synopsis of Isle of Dogs , but doesn't it sound very familiar to something in the real world? Wes Anderson tells us a rhythmic and poetic stop-motion story about a group of dogs and a boy in a Japanese city who are the target of persecution and hate, making an important and witty allegory about what is happening in many parts of the world nowadays, all through the eloquence of man's best friend - who doesn't love dogs? This story is set in a Japanese city, cal...

The Shape of Water - The Shape of Love  What is it to be human? Is it to belong to the homo sapiens species? Or is it something more? Something deeper, something less superficial and scientific? Is it, perhaps, love? This is the question raised by this marvelous and lovely tale, titled The Shape of Water . Guillermo del Toro guides us through this dream of love and loss with such humanism and immerses us into an extraordinary world. We are immediately submerged in this magical world by the fantastic musical score of Alexandre Desplat. We dive into a magical world populated by fantastic sea creatures and terrible monsters, during the 60's, in the heat of the Cold War, all through the muteness of a princess without a voice but with a heart greater than most, who falls for a lost soul, victim of the injustices of power and greed of the world.  This princess without a voice is Elisa Esposito (a name associated with orphans), played by Sally Hawkins in one of her best perfor...