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But sometimes all this cannot really cover the experiences, emotions and ideas of our real lives, human's lives. Then there are the movies, that reveal the truths about us all, asks about humanity, meaning of life, science, progress, degradation, love, hope and faith.
- The Curiosity Award: Annihilation
- The Renewing-Your-Purpose Award: Bao
- The Diversity Award: Blindspotting
- The Self-Acceptance Award: Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Compassion Award: Capernaum
- The Happiness Award: Crazy Rich Asians
- The Reconciliation Award: Disobedience
- The Personal Growth Award: Eighth Grade
- The Friendship Award: Free Solo
- The Love Award: Leave No Trace
A mysterious extraterrestrial force is transforming Florida’s panhandle, wondrously mutating the flora and fauna—and even time itself. Each member of the five-woman team that ventures into “the Shimmer,” as it’s called, is driven by different questions. For the biologist on the team, Lena, the questions are personal as well as scientific: What happ...
As parents, our purpose—a commitment to a long-term goal in the service of others—is often intertwined with our identity as caregivers. This is especially true for Bao’sprotagonist, a middle-aged woman whose last dumpling in her bamboo steamer magically transforms into a crying baby dumpling. She attends to the dumpling’s every need, proudly record...
There is a scene in Blindspotting, the latest film from director Carlos López Estrada, that will likely weigh heavily on anyone who has been stereotyped as someone they’re not. Miles, a Caucasian man played brilliantly by Rafael Casal, is told at a house party hosted by a tech-sector kingpin in his gentrifying city that he “doesn’t have to act ghet...
Bohemian Rhapsodyis a rock-n-roll biopic about Freddie Mercury of the band Queen, and, in many ways, it’s completely typical of the genre. We have the rise to fame, the fall from grace, the redemption—hardly a scene passes without a cliché of one kind or another. Many of those clichés border on homophobic, as Mercury’s licentious bisexuality seems ...
Zain wants to sue his parents for bringing him into this world. He has good reason: The family lives in poverty so extreme that no one really knows how old Zain is, because he has no birth certificate, and his growth has been stunted. Zain might regret having been born, but that doesn’t stop him from trying to make life better for those around him....
When Rachel Chu arrives in Singapore, she discovers that her boyfriend Nick Young belongs to the country’s super-rich elite—and that she and her lucky red dress are not enough to impress his icily polite mother Eleanor. While part of Rachel’s struggle is over language and traditions (like her stilted Mandarin and confusion over whether to call Elea...
Disobedienceis not a love triangle, in the usual Hollywood sense. It tells the story of three people who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community in London: Ronit, Dovid, and Esti. Ronit is the daughter of the community’s spiritual leader, who had once rejected her for being bisexual. When he dies, she returns home—and there Ronit encounters her tee...
As Eighth Gradeopens, the awkward, isolated, and endearing teen Kayla shares some tips about “being yourself” on her YouTube channel. In the next (ironic) clip, she carefully does her hair and makeup, then arranges herself in the perfect wake-up position for a morning selfie. “Ugh,” she says on social media, “just woke up like this.” It’s easy to s...
Alex Honnold is the star of the documentary Free Solo, in which the California native attempts to scale the world’s tallest monolith in Yosemite using his hands and feet and literally nothing else—no ropes, no nets, and apparently no fear. Even on the last day of filming, no one knew yet whether they were making a triumph or a tragedy. Honnold’s tr...
“There’s no hate in this movie,” whispered my friend Adele as we watched Leave No Trace, a touch of awe in her voice. Will lives in a state forest with his 13-year-old daughter Tom, and the two spend their days collecting firewood, foraging for food, and doing what they have to do to survive. Why? How did they get there? For the most part, Leave No...
Apr 6, 2018 · The Humanity Bureau: Directed by Rob W. King. With Nicolas Cage, Sarah Lind, Jakob Davies, Hugh Dillon. A dystopian thriller set in the year 2030 that sees the world in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.
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The Humanity Bureau is a 2018 Canadian science fiction thriller film directed by Rob W. King and written by Dave Schultz. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Sarah Lind, Hugh Dillon and Jakob Davies. The film was released on April 6, 2018, by Mind's Eye Entertainment.
- The Kindness Award: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. As the movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood illustrates, the children’s TV host Mister Rogers was on a mission.
- The Community Award: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Real-life William Kamkwamba was only 13 years old when a combination of flooding and drought led to a very long hungry season in Malawi.
- The Bridging Differences Award: The Farewell. In The Farewell, a first-generation Chinese immigrant named Billi (played by the rapper Awkwafina) learns that her beloved Chinese grandmother and family matriarch, Nai-Nai (Zhao Shuzhen), is dying.
- The Love Award: For Sama. For Sama juxtaposes seemingly impossible images and sounds. In an early scene, a mother sings a playful song to her baby as a bomb strikes thunderously close to their home.
Dec 8, 2017 · In its attempt to take hold of the economic recession, a government agency called The Humanity Bureau exiles members of society deemed unproductive and banishes them to a colony known as ...more...
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Mar 24, 2022 · Eleven Films That Highlight the Best in Humanity. It’s time for the Greater Goodies, honoring movies from the past year that exemplify optimism, love, empathy, and other keys to our well-being. By Jeremy Adam Smith , Andrea Collier , Shuka Kalantari , Jill Suttie , May-lee Chai , Amy L. Eva , Shanna B. Tiayon | March 24, 2022.
