Better Days
- heavy
- intense
Heavy, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.
Our read · Better Days (2019) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Better Days
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“You want a devastating teen bullying drama that earns every tear honestly.”
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