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Joyces Choices
Joyce Kulhawik, best known as the Emmy Award-winning arts and entertainment critic for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV 1981-2008), is currently lending her expertise as an arts critic/advocate, motivational speaker, and cancer crusader. Kulhawik is President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, and Boston Online Film Critics Association. Kulhawik has covered local and national events from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood, reporting live from the Oscars, the Emmys, and the Grammys. Nationally, Kulhawik has co-hosted syndicated movie-review programs with Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin. Look for her arts & entertainment reviews online at JoycesChoices.com
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You are in luck– a fresh, exhilarating new film opens on YOUR screens
this weekend:
WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES. A buzzy hit at Sundance last year,
it’s the debut feature film by writer/director Makoto Nagahisa and
sparkles with inventiveness and style, humor and wisdom, humanity and
digital dazzle. It’s a fizzy mashup of retro video game effects, pop
culture and pop-up book innocence, a new way into age-old questions
about life and death prompted by human suffering–and it’s a trip!
The main character Hikari (Ninomiya Keita), a video game-obsessed 13
year-old, is our guide. His name means “light” and we follow that light
to the end of the tunnel where life itself is questioned. Hikari’s
parents have just died in a road accident and his opening words set us
off on an existential pop odyssey. As he watches the ashes of his
cremated parents waft into the air, he observes it is like “parmesan on a
plate of bolognese.” Hilarious and absurd, the simile sets the tone,
but Hikari is not as sad or ironically amused as I was to learn his
parents died in a bus crash on a “Happiness Tour,” one of the “worst
named package tours of all time: ‘All You Can Eat Strawberry Tour.’”
Hikari, emotionless, declares “Reality is too stupid to cry over. And
that’s that.” Not so fast. I was laughing and crying, and couldn’t wait
to see where this was going.
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7/11/2020