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Bedre (2020)
Great acting, great story
This movie surprised me. Stumbled it on accidentally, but got hooked and had to finish it.
The acting on main characters was amazing, playing on close to home aspects of life in Latvia, depicting aspects from past and today, starting from hate against non normal during Soviet era, ending with alcoholism and domestic violence issues families experience in our country, ignoring children and making opinions about neighbor without knowing anything about them.
Story is great and flows naturally from the perspective of the young, unheard child and the ending while sad is very beautiful.
Only downside was the camera work, some dialog scenes had some vert awkward stylistic choices that didn't work, at least for me.
Star Trek: Voyager: Mortal Coil (1997)
Neelix loses his belief in himself
Another episode that makes me judge others opinions. Neelix has a great character and show has shown a great character building over the seasons. This episode shows how one of the most appreciated person on ship feels himself worthless.
I think this episode is great learning point for everyone who sometimes struggle on seeing their worth, even people who are around people every day, making them talk, helping resolve personal issues, doing small things like creating events to celebrate with the team, and in general increasing morale of a crew in great distress with a simple commodity - home made food sometimes think that they are a burden.
When losing the last ideal of his own, that he is watched by his family who have died from afterlife, it is lost when he does not see the guiding tree.
I think premise of the show is amazing, it shows that people can get lost and can be helped by people around them and it is just a great story telling about simple character, such as Neelix. Through out seasons he has gone through many disasters, his family has died prior to Voyager, divorce of Kes, and then her leaving, and now destruction of his beliefs, those are small things that are not really spoken about in the show, just kind of in background, and seemingly such a happy persona can still decide that there is no reason to live.
I can see some dumbness in execution, some miracle cure at a lucky moment, some random necrosis, Chikotay magic device, but it is a TV show just tells a great story.