First & Lasts 035 - All Time Fav
Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot? The answer is after the jump...
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Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot? The answer is after the jump...
Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot?
Party music is blasting. No, it's not a Spider-Man movie despite the upside down cityscape. The next cut, once fireworks go off, turns the image right-side up.
And a shot of an FBI building. The movie is from 2023. The answer is after the jump...
Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot?
This one recently got a sequel and the answer is after the jump once you scroll down...
Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot? The answer is after the jump when you scroll down...
As if dipped in ink, the screen is a void, shadows so thick they seem to swallow the light. Gravity-pulling like a black hole, this emptiness must be broken. So, it is with water leading the way, that eternal life-giver, life-taker. And even before we see its tide, we feel an ocean calling. It emerges in white lines, foam on cresting waves, their back-and-forth movement an Atlantic embrace. No character has invoked her yet, but we already sense the immensity of Mami Wata, the mother-like water deity that appears across African myth and the diaspora. In a feat of miraculous cinema, Nigerian director C.J. 'Fiery' Obasi has used his third feature to summon the spirit, inviting us to commune with her.
That's not to say Mami Wata – now in theaters – is a film aiming solely at religious ecstasy. If possible, it has even greater ambitions. Its tale is the story of a matriarchal society threatened by patriarchy and treacherous progress, of a sisterhood trying to resolve ancient contradictions while preserving the old ways into a changing world…