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The Shape of Water

disability 06:18:00
If you believe in fairy tales, you know that for everybody there is a second-half reserved in the storage of soulmates. Our task is only to find it, dive into the heap of hay and try to find the needle. But falling in love can surprise you. Your ultimate partner might not be the one you have expected. But stop complaining, just let...
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Black Panther

action 23:24:00
We usually associate heroes with white Americans or Europeans hit by personal tragedy, which made them plot vendetta against their enemies and opponents. The world is far wider than the cities we are used to. It comprises tribes, following different customs and traditions, landscapes unsurpassed in their beauty, wild animals living freely in wide open spaces of valleys and hills, and people struck...
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Phantom Thread

fashion 00:32:00
It's not enough to love a human being, to accept flaws of character, annoying habits, immoral tendencies or, simply, sins. To love a human being is to accept also the profession that one has to perform, is devoted to, or which occupies the man's mind also during the sleep. This is known to wives of firefighters, fearing every siren, to partners of policemen,...
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

cancer 08:24:00
You cannot really control your emotions when you've been struck by the worst possible tragedy. You don't think sensibly and you are unwilling to forget those who wronged you. But how can you cope when everyone seems to forget what tragedy happened to you, and you start to lose hope? One creative idea can cause the whole town to be engaged in your...
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Lost and Delirious

boarding school 06:59:00
Do you recall friendships you had when you were at school? Remember how strong they were, how infatuated you were with one another, how strong was the fort you built against parents, teachers, and school bullies? Even though young, you were able to experience the whole spectrum of emotions reserved usually for adults. Some friendships turned into romances, some romances were betrayed by...
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Grandma

abortion 02:59:00
When you're young, you make mistakes. Middle age teaches you some life lessons, but you have to deal with the flawed individuals around you. Those usually screw up your perfect life scenario like unattended children with their muddy fingers destroy the clean white wall. When you are accepted to the world of elderly, you reap the harvest of your entire life, supporting those...
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Le Redoutable/ Redoubtable

acting 03:50:00
Prince charming of the ordinary world of bankers, businessmen, and blue-collar workers seems to appear from the world of muses: art, literature, music, film, and dance. All that glitters is not gold, and it's difficult to live with an artist, especially when his views clash with the so-called normal and universally accepted. It's challenging enough to be married to one who puts revolution...
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Breathe

Africa 07:16:00
When you are young you rarely take into account that you will be struck by some serious disease, that you will be paralyzed, disabled and dependent on others for the rest of your life. You rarely await accident and misfortunes. But they happen, teaching you bigger lessons than all fairy tales that your mother read you to sleep, all movies that you have...
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9 to 5

career 07:15:00
Why is it so that there is a significantly smaller percentage of women who are CEOs of big corporations, managers of their own companies, directors of big film productions and heads of their own households? What happened along the way in the process of career development of female population when it is women who are usually better educated, solve tests quicker and are...
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On the nature of pictures

*Every Google image belongs to someone and this someone should be noted. However, if pictures are scenes from the film they most probably belong to owners of the film/producers. I use saved screens of the Google compilation of pictures, thus the pictures of pictures, which I take, cut and edit myself (as a derivative use). They are used for reviewing purposes (fair use), not for diminishing the films' profits by stealing what rightly belongs to them. Copyright is tricky, let's get used to it.