Reno-Rangan

Most of the human and (wild) animal relationship movies are comedies and mostly targeted audience were children, families. Its either entertainment film or the documentary film.

Take for instance, take the recent film based on the real, The One and Only Ivan (2020) or any DisneyNature films. But there are some fine realistic films too we can find, and this is one of those.

Very emotional tale, reminded me of the Jane Hawking, the wife of Stephen Hawking from the film, La théorie de l'univers (2014). Yes, a woman who dedicated all her life for another person, like a servant, slave. The commitment she expected nothing in return.

In this story, if she wanted, she could have looked after her own life, instead she dedicated to Lucy, a human chimp that's born in the human world, raised by the human parents and sent to live the wild life as it meant to be in the African jungle.

Was it a right decision? Very debatable among the commoners and the experts. But 40 years ago the world was different than what human think and do today.

They had not had the original footages, so they recreated it with the actors to accomplish the project. It was a short film, but very good. I hope this will turn into a real motion picture. I definitely want that.

I had no expectation. I don't know why I even gave it a shot, while I'd plenty of series to go on from my watchlist. In the end, I'm more than satisfied.

You know, it kind of resembles the Better Things (2016), three kids raised by a single parent. If you had liked that, you will like it as well.

Here, the story of three siblings, growing up together after their parents died. All the responsibility goes to the eldest brother. Nicely, beautifully, narrated tale, episode after episode.

Somewhat felt like a realistic portrayal. But it also had shares of cinematic rendering, especially the comedy parts.

The topics were bold enough to talk. Like homosexual to teen sex, bullying to suicides, autism to standing up to the world. At the end of every episode, they mentioned helpline for prevention regarding each episode's topic. That's a nice one.

In the age if superhero movies/series where OTT platforms are taking over, this kind of little cute series brings the balance that's missing between the genres. Especially for the grown-ups. Now I'm looking forward for the season 2.

SEASON 01: 8/10.

Previous movies in the series were good when it had the Hong Kong origin. But now this is polluted with ccp's propaganda.

This is definitely not a biopic. Definitely not Ip Man's tale. His screen appearance was shortened. And focused more on a fictional story that influenced by ccp's own narration.

Today's Hong Kong filmmakers lost all the freedom to tell the (true) story they want to. Or could be brainwashed by red. Or threatened their lives.

As of where today's global politics stand, they used the Ip Man's worldwide popularity as a pawn to spread their propaganda.

They once tried that with India. They are not wanted India lean towards America, so they made a film called 'Kung Fu Yoga' to mark the friendship. It didn't work.

They wanted to accomplish a couple of things from this film. First, targeting Japan by dragging its Karate into the story, by saying kung fu is superior than Karate. Just like how the original Japanese connection 'Karate Kid' became chinese 'Karate Kid' in its remake.

And second target was the white people, especially Americans, making them look like the fools. I'm neither white nor yellow. I'm neither American nor East Asian. From my perspective, this film is an utter crap. I didn't buy their propaganda, I hope you won't do as well.