Dear Son
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
Heavy, steady, measured radicalization / parents, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Extremism slices through a Tunisian family with the realization that their teenage son has become an ISIS fighter.
Our read · Dear Son (2018) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded radicalization · parents · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Dear Son
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