Scattered 2023 Movies in Review
Scattered 2023 Movies in Review By Sarah Jester | December 27, 2023 Preface: I’m writing this before I’ve seen Poor Things. Shoot me! PERSONAL FAVORITE: The Boy and the Heron (sub) Hayao Miyazaki’s swan song is -- appropriately -- filled to the brim with birds of all feathers. A heartbreaking and sincere meditation on legacy, Miyazaki reckons with what we leave behind in a world that doesn’t promise us tomorrow. In The Boy and the Heron , the lines between blood & chosen family blur and run together as Mahito embarks upon a quest to recover his newly adopted mother, Natsuko, the younger sister of his late biological mother, Hisako, from an eerily paralleled oceanic landscape residing far beneath the confines of the familiar world. Miyazaki reminds us that in a largely absurd world filled with war, death, and destruction, people are all we’ve got. But what of the world itself? With thirteen films under his belt, the acclaimed director alludes to his legacy in the form of thirteen wo...