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La chimera (2023)
A touching tale of love, life, dream and death
When you get to know and understand love, it is hard to think of it as something other than life itself. All the main characters of La Chimera are enslaved by their chimeras, their impossible fantasies and fixations, and some of them even go the extra mile of disturbing dead Etruscans in the desperate attempt to fulfill thm. Arthur is in a sort of limbo for the duration of the whole film, trying to figure out how to come back to life, how to have life, love, dream and death finally converge. Alice Rohrwacher tells us that there is more to life than what meets the eye, and she makes Arthur gradually come to this conclusion himself: some things are not meant for human eyes to see, not for now anyway.
Asteroid City (2023)
Ever felt like you have no idea why you did something you did?
Life is all about baffling suggestions and things we react to in a certain way without precisely knowing why we reacted the way we did, as is this movie (and the play in the movie (and the documentary about the play in the movie, for that matter)).
"You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep". Wes Anderson is telling us to surrender to the power of the unconscious, which is what governs our experience of the world. We can try to make sense of our actions, but it's pretty much like trying to make sense of a dream. Sometimes aliens show up and we'd like to know why they did what they did - but do they actually know themselves?