sps-70659
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Medical drama, medical tragedy, ho hum, how can you possibly make it new again.
Other correspondent is right, "Second Victims" is inapt, "Secondary Victims" is closer to the true sense in English.
Who cares. The point is, the director has done all this serious research with real people who've suffered real heartbreak, and brought it to life with a fine movie that makes few missteps.
The cast, the script, the production, the length, are all apt. When the emotional dilemmas arrive, they are real, heartfelt, and carry you along, instead of you rolling your eyes, boring, another medical-drama trope.
Even the senior surgeon who is the neurologist's nemesis, but also helps her get through it, is a nice role, with neat lines. That "guilty" red staircase the neurologist walks up and down, up and down, you remember it.
Still not sure, about the very final scene. Again, who cares, it's a success for Elkington.
Other correspondent is right, "Second Victims" is inapt, "Secondary Victims" is closer to the true sense in English.
Who cares. The point is, the director has done all this serious research with real people who've suffered real heartbreak, and brought it to life with a fine movie that makes few missteps.
The cast, the script, the production, the length, are all apt. When the emotional dilemmas arrive, they are real, heartfelt, and carry you along, instead of you rolling your eyes, boring, another medical-drama trope.
Even the senior surgeon who is the neurologist's nemesis, but also helps her get through it, is a nice role, with neat lines. That "guilty" red staircase the neurologist walks up and down, up and down, you remember it.
Still not sure, about the very final scene. Again, who cares, it's a success for Elkington.
Thorough depiction of Australia's uniquely crass and duplicitous approach to killing off its koala populations by degrees. Might be an eye-opener for overseas audiences.
Time and again, profit-making developers and loss-making foresters make a joke of environmental regulations and sanctions.
You have to admire the knowledge and courage of all the environmental experts and koala volunteers featured, they give it everything.
BUT, as is typical of WWF and other Australian environmental groups, the movie ducks the habitat impacts of our absurd levels of population growth, a 45% hike just this century. Not everything's about "climate change".
Time and again, profit-making developers and loss-making foresters make a joke of environmental regulations and sanctions.
You have to admire the knowledge and courage of all the environmental experts and koala volunteers featured, they give it everything.
BUT, as is typical of WWF and other Australian environmental groups, the movie ducks the habitat impacts of our absurd levels of population growth, a 45% hike just this century. Not everything's about "climate change".
There's plenty to like about this movie, but plenty of reservations too, if you will pardon the pun.
There's nothing particularly wrong with the premise, a talented but manipulative Native American who climbs to a higher station, but cannot escape the awful baggage he has left behind.
The Native American leads are convincing and affecting, and the Jesse Eisenberg cameos likewise.
The problem is the unnecessary and unconvincing "political" effort to link the modern day drama to the horrors of the original invasion.
Remove the first five minutes and the last five minutes, you would have a more coherent movie.
There's nothing particularly wrong with the premise, a talented but manipulative Native American who climbs to a higher station, but cannot escape the awful baggage he has left behind.
The Native American leads are convincing and affecting, and the Jesse Eisenberg cameos likewise.
The problem is the unnecessary and unconvincing "political" effort to link the modern day drama to the horrors of the original invasion.
Remove the first five minutes and the last five minutes, you would have a more coherent movie.