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User Reviews for: Ginger & Rosa

AbedDreaming
CONTAINS SPOILERS/10  4 years ago
There's an interesting layer beneath the emotional and familial relationships. I hope i don't sound too pretentious or that it's all so obvious to others I sound foolish, but I just wanted to share what I took away from it all.

The film is set upon the backdrop of the Cold War as the Cuban Missile Crisis is heating up between the US and Russia, two nations whose dominance upon the world came about at the end of WWII at the same time these two girls were born and overtook the lives of their parents. While the warlike intensity rages in the background, the characters and families pursue the anti-war movements ideas.

[spoiler]It's within this struggle and juxtaposition of political/philosophical ideologies that we witness Rosa pursuing the path of Bohemian pacifism under the romantic lure of Roland while Ginger embraces protest and finally struggles with the notion of taking action. In the face of the the annihilation of his family, Roland argues his case for the dissolution of nuclear family, spurring the mother Natalie to take drastic action.[/spoiler] The actors and pacing are all very engaging as the emotional story unfolds, so it's easy o overlook the various hints of those parallels to the background setting and deeper philosophical perspectives.

Anyway, I thought that framing was really well conceived, written and portrayed. And the cast did a remarkable job fleshing out the world and positions, and just overall felt the direction and cinematography created a wonderful mood.
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