sunday flick picks

the virgin suicides (1999) 
setting: Grosse Pointe, Michigan 1974.
the lisbon girls : Therese (Leslie Hayman), Mary (A.J. Cook), Bonnie (Chelsea Swain), Lux (Kirsten Dunst), and Cecilia Lisbon (Hanna R. Hall)

the movie is about the strange lisbon sisters who were raised by religious parents yet had a very huge urge to commit suicide. the story ended tragically, the five sisters all committed suicide. Therese took sleeping pills, Bonnie hanged herself in the basement, Mary stuck her head in the gas oven, and Lux died of carbon monoxide poisoning by leaving the car engine running in the garage.

my sister's keeper (2009)

anna, was born to become a genetic match for her sister kate, who's dying from Acute promyelocytic leukemia, cancer of the blood and bone marrow. she was conceived to keep her sister alive and that's how the movie title was came from. when her sister kate turned 15 and had renal failure, anna was aware that she would be forced to donate her kidney to her sister so, anna sued her parents for medical emancipation or the rights to her own body. Lawyer Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin) agrees to work as Anna's legal counsel/ guardian ad litem. Sara (Cameron Diaz), their mother, who's also a lawyer, stopped practicing law since she devoted her life keeping kate alive. she was very upset of anna's decision. Anna's father agreed that they might've crossed the line since anna was left without any choice since birth. during the trial, it was divulged that kate herself asked her sister Ana to consult a lawyer and sue their parents because she has accepted her fate and is willing to die.  Anna and Atty. campbell won their case giving anna the right to her own body. the story is really meaningful because every character has a story to tell.

angela's ashes (1999)
setting: Limerick, Ireland,
1930s and '40s

anyways, i watched angela's ashes and boy it was lengthy. if i'm not mistaken it took roughly over two hours.

the family was forced to move back to their homeland ireland from the U.S due to lack of means to survive. the head of the family struggled to get a job amidst having so many kids because he was a drunkard. the only daughter, after 4 boys died few days after she was born. one of the twins died then the other one followed leaving them with only two boys left.  the film narrated the young mccourt's life in Limerick, Ireland, during his childhood in the 1930s and '40s, the difficulties that ensued, and finally Frank's way of earning enough money to return to the land of his dreams: America.

Y tu mamá también (English: "And your mother too")
2001 Mexican drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, and co-written by Cuarón and his brother Carlos. The film is a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys taking a road trip with a woman in her late twenties;

The story itself focuses on two boys at the threshold of adulthood: Julio (Gael García Bernal), from a leftist middle-class family, and Tenoch (Diego Luna), whose father is a high-ranking political official. The film opens with scenes of each boy having sex with his girlfriend one last time before the girls leave on a trip to Italy. Without their girlfriends around, the boys quickly become bored. At a wedding, they meet Luisa (Maribel Verdú), the Spanish wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano, and attempt to impress the older woman with talk of an invented, secluded beach called la Boca del Cielo ("Heaven's Mouth"). She initially declines their invitation to go there with them, but changes her mind following a phone call in which Jano tearfully confesses cheating on her. Although Julio and Tenoch have little idea where to find the promised beach, the three set off for it, driving through poor, rural Mexico. They pass the time by talking about their relationships and sexual experiences, with the boys largely boasting about their modest exploits, and Luisa speaking in more measured terms about Jano and wistfully of her first love, who died in a motorcycle accident when she was a teenager.  The two later on found that Luisa died, they learned that she was dying when they met her.

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