A father and son go out in a rural area hunting a magical creature (I believe in the form of a wolf) that can also transform into a beautiful woman. The son has an opportunity to (throw water on it?) kill the creature but hesitates and does not. The father subsequently dies.
A large part of the film takes place in the future in a big city where the boy is now a young adult and the city (locals appear to be asian) is occupied by (British?) white people.
The creature/woman the boy spares now works as a prostitute for these colonists and the boy saves her from potentially being raped. (Or perhaps the creature/women saves another girl I can't quite remember)
The boy is now an inventor of sorts, and although I don't remember much the movie ends with him making the women/creature he loved into a sort of cyborg robot wolf that can leap across building tops.
I don't seem to remember much else.
Thank you!
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When I was 25, we found out that my father had been cheating on my mother for years and he had a 7 year old daughter with his mistress. In one split second, the happy family I knew was gone, and I went through the darkest time in my life.
My parents divorced and per their prenup, my mother walked away with most of their assets (since she also contributed more to the family income). She never forgave my dad for what he did and never talked to him again, though she grudgingly allowed me to have whatever relationship I wanted to have with him. I eventually forgave my dad mostly because I was tired of carrying so much anger and hurt in my heart. I talk to him but I want nothing to do with his mistress or my half sister.
My mother died last year and left me everything - her money, her real estate assets, and her business, which I now own and operate. I am in a relatively comfortable financial position, while my dad is... getting by. He was never a good businessman on his own and lost a lot of his money on businesses that later went belly up.
This year my half sister was diagnosed with a life threatening sickness, and she has been in the hospital for the last four months. The bills are mounting and my dad came to me for help because they are now in a situation where they are finding it difficult to come up with money for my half sister's treatment.
The thing is, I don't want to use my mother's money to pay for the treatment of the child her husband had with his other woman. Though it's not my half sister's fault, it feels so unfair when I think that the money my mother worked hard all her life for will go to a child that neither my mother and I have any responsibility towards, and the very same child of the man and the woman who hurt her so much at that. I'd really rather use it to grow her company and let my dad and my half sister's mother figure out how to get money for her treatment. They are her parents after all. The only thing tying me to her is my father saying "She is your sister" and "If she dies because she didn't get the treatment she needs, would you be able to sleep at night?"
AITA?
Help me, TOMT, you're my only hope. The film I'm looking for was one I saw on a plane sometime in the mid-2000s. I only caught about two thirds of it and for some reason I remembered it the other day and decided to try and track it down. It is about a very wealthy family who own a big house in the English countryside. The father dies leaving a huge inheritance to his widow and kids. The widow finds a new man and wants to remarry, but the son and daughter resent this. Meanwhile it emerges that the widow's sister had been trying to seduce the husband/father before he died. The film culminates in the wedding between the widow and the new man (I think), at which the son dives into a swimming pool to rescue a drowning toddler. If this rings a bell, please help.
"Zero" | A DUST Original
Written and directed by The Brothers Lynch (Keith & David)
Logline:
After a mysterious electro-magnetic pulse renders the world's technology useless, a young girl ο¬nds herself isolated and alone with only her father's strict set of rules to keep her alive.
Full Synopsis:
Zero is the story of Alice who lives with her paranoid prepper father, John. All the preparation in the world canβt save her father from the inevitable cardiac arrest that follows when an E.M.P. disables his pacemaker.
Alice is left alone in a barricaded farmhouse in the English countryside. But the ghost of her father lives on through the strict rules he gave her: trust no-one; never let anyone in the house; and never, ever, leave.
All Alice has to do is follow these rules to the letter and she will survive but her resolve will be pushed to its limits when a wounded man knocks on her door...
Watch more from The Brothers Lynch on DUST with their short film "Trial" here: https://youtu.be/aLDRM02BM7M
I think it is an Israeli short film... probably from atleast 10 years ago, maybe older.
I saw it in Toronto as part of a short film program.
The premise/plot is as follows: the family dog has died (I cant remember her name). The father wants to bury/remember the dog, and noone has time - kids are all grown up, demands of regular life dont let up, and basically he carries the dog in a cardboard box all day.
He finally buries the dog, alone. And then breaks down and cries.
At that point, with the camera still rolling, the filmmaker steps out from behind the camera and consoles the man.
The filmmaker is the son of the father. And i think he basically got his dad (and everyone else?) to relive/re-enact an experience that actually happened.
I really loved the film. Would like to see it again...
my father experience severe psychological trauma as a child after he saw what alcohol turned his father into. Long story short he considered alcohol to be off limits forever.
I remember the days I would try to sneak it when under age and when I was caught I would be lifted by my bare chest and punished for it. Beatings were the only thing he knew as well to show love. I mean this in a way that he would be so scared of his children becoming alcoholics he would beat us senseless. Heβs not a bad father and I understand why he did the things he did.
He became an officer and as his children we abided by every law in the states. Iβm genuine when I say that if we were caught bending any type of law he would scream at us or beat us to keep us in line. Again, itβs all that he ever knew when it came to protecting his children.
Moving on from his background, we are now in Florida on vacation together. Iβm not 23 years old and have a fiancΓ©. I brought alcohol down to Florida and told my father that itβs time to stop worrying about me and take care of himself. I sat out with my father on the balcony, you could see and hear the beautiful waves crashing into the sand. Thatβs when I pulled out fireball.
He gave that look but I assured him that this was the first drink I have had in about 3 months (true statement). I knocked the bottle back and handed it to him. I said βyou donβt have to if you donβt want to dad.β He looked at me then took the bottle from my hand and knocked back about 2 shots worth.
We waterfall the bottle together for 2 hours and for the first time in my life Iβm witnessing my father put down the walls that he built around himself. We talked about anything that came to mind. We smiled and laughed, we took turns showing each other songs that we liked. For the first time ever, I was drunk with the man who could only be described as a drill sergeant. It was a truly beautiful moment and Iβll never forget that day. For as long as I live and breathe. My officer of a dad, finally bent the law.
EDIT: to all of those judging me for understanding my fathers issues know this please, I am completely aware that what my father did to us as children was wrong, it took opening my eyes to realize this behavior was unacceptable. Iβm a grown man now who will never allow my children to endure the things I experienced. I was never here to justify his actions, but rather look past his errors and find out it was a broken human who suffered the same beatings when he was
... keep reading on reddit β‘I hate so much these fucking women who are always like "proud single mom" and everyone is like "you go girl!" But really dad is there for every event, is engaged in as much as mommy will allow, pays child support without ever needing courts to say he has to, pays bills at the home he doesn't stay in because he's a good man and father. If this is the case you're not a single mom. You're a co-parent and you don't deserve praise. You're an attention whore. And if the relationship between you and him ended because of you, you shouldn't be proud that you're a fucking failure as a partner and in my eyes as a mother. It's no secret broken homes have a higher rate of raising broken children.
And before people come in playing what if... if the relationship ended because of him, but he still does the right thing, you're still a co parent. And if the guy is a fucking dirt bag who need to be forced to pay for his kid and treats them like a burden or just isn't around., Then you're a single mom, and if you're actually good at it. Then you can be proud.
Edit: spelling/ grammar. Fucking mobile
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Here it goes, for better or worse, my full-on, stream of conscious, off-the-top summary of my life so far.
I am an immigrant. I came to the US when I was 9, got into a specialized high school, then headed to college to study film production. Got in on a scholarship and left with no debt, something I grateful for on the daily.
When it came to film, I soon found out I couldn't keep the hours and work didn't pay well, also I'm not a technically-oriented person, at least film-wise, so that career didn't pan out. Spent 4-5 years doing social media for the same college I graduated from, then quit because it was going nowhere. I feel those were formative years and I wasted them on a job that didn't advance my career. I fell into a government finance job after that have been here since.
The gov job is robotic to the point where I genuinely feel like you need to be creatively defunct in order to do it. I've done so many identical tasks over and over again that I found myself genuinely wanting to walk out on multiple occasions. The people I work with are lovely but my supervisor is clearly disinterested in my development. I spend days and days and days doing absolutely nothing and getting paid reasonably well for it. The first two years were agony but then my daughter was born and predictably, my outlook changed. Combined with continuing therapy and going on Prozac, I am much happier and more present now on a daily basis.
However, surrounded by social media (Reddit included), friends who are child-free and traveling, pursuing exciting careers and actually advancing within them, I feel like something is missing. On one hand, I am content to sit home, watch movies, occasionally do karaoke and try new foods. I'm content not to travel much because traveling with a toddler sounds like a real pain. Sometimes though, I get real longing and pangs and feel like I could be doing more and I'm not. I could do more with my life, I could find a new job, I could travel more, meet new people, etc. I'm sure everyone feels this way but I actually want to do something actionable. This summary is a glimpse at my life, but maybe putting it out here and opening myself up to criticism and advice will spur momentum.
| Rank | Title | Domestic Gross (Weekend) | Worldwide Gross (Cume) | Week # | Percentage Change | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Secret Life of Pets 2 | $47,110,000 | $97,035,000 | 1 | N/A | $80M |
| 2 | Dark Phoenix | $33,000,000 | $140,000,000 | 1 | N/A | $200M |
| 3 | Aladdin (2019) | $24,500,000 | $604,885,926 | 3 | -42.8% | $183M |
| 4 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | $15,540,000 | $292,297,097 | 2 | -67.5% | $170M |
| 5 | Rocketman | $14,000,000 | $101,798,756 | 2 | -45.6% | $40M |
Notable Box Office Stories
- The Secret Life of Pets 2 - For how massive the 2019 blockbuster season began with Avengers: Endgame it's been a rather muted start with notable disappointments from once very successful franchises. This week saw two of those, first with The Secret Life of Pets 2 which opened at #1 to a disappointing $47.1M. The original is a film people probably forgot was an absolute monster hit as the first one opened to a massive $100M+ and closed over $350M domestic, so a second film seemed like a surefire thing. Even with the replacement of the lead voice actor Louis C.K. after the comedian faced major sexual misconduct allegations, the film arrived mostly drama free and at the same time slot just three years later. So why then did this open to almost half the original? Well for one the trailers and the marketing for Secret Life of Pets were rock solid, doing the classic Illumination thing of putting the easiest and best gags in the trailer and making it perfect YouTube entertainment fodder for kids. But the actual film was not a light series of gags, but rather a somewhat violent adventure film with the most cliche plot around. Not exactly something that drives parents and kids to have to see a second one.
- The Secret Life of Pets 2 (cont.) - The second one just has not had the same level of hype at all, feeling more like a perfunctory well we had to make a second one so eat it up! But more urgently is there's a wee bit of a behemoth franchise coming out in two weeks, the child friendly franchise Child's Play. Come on, the family friendliness is even in the title! Oh yeah and Toy Story 4 is coming out and almost certainly will pass $100M domestic in opening and that number could potentially go as high as $200M. That's a lot of families who are probably convincing their kids a 2,000th watch of Secret Life of Pets on DVD is good enough and saving the $50+ trip to the movies for the big event. But doesn't that make Disney's take over of blockbuster culture more inevi
Having just watched Hirokazu Kore-eda's Like Father, Like Son (2013), I was looking up one of the wives of the two couples - beautiful woman, and saw that there is a remake of the animated Kiki's Deliver Service in 2014.
What other animated movies were remade into real films? I know of one that is kind of a homage to spoilers
Here's the Kiki's Delivery Service trailer.
After Nick Cage, Iβm very excited to see what other actors Stanleyβs brings in to help put this madness on screen. I didnβt love Color out of Space, it defintely could have used a more subtle touch in some parts, but I really enjoyed Stanleyβs vision and just seeing Lovecraft in general. And though he wasnβt as good as in Mandy, pure Cage is always an experience.
I think two obvious answers are Willem Dafoe or Michael Shannon. But Iβm sure there are many other great options than Iβm not thinking of
My parents divorced when I was 10, which was fine. They werenβt happy together. Divorce made sense.
The time Iβd be with my mom, sheβd tell me all the awful things my dad was doing in the divorce. How he was making us move so he could have more money, how he was a horrible disgusting person, how he was trying to stop paying child support. How she was poor because of him. And over the years I grew to resent my dad. I hated him for all these things he did to my mom. But my dad never said anything bad about my mom to me.
Now that Iβm older, Iβm realizing how much she affected my relationship with my dad. I hate him because of her. It feels awful to reflect on.
My mom checked out in high school. She was dirt poor and didnt put any effort into speaking to me or spending time with me. I understand poverty, but as a teenager I wanted some guidance. And I hated my dad so much I wouldnβt talk to him. I felt really lonely and sad.
Iβm in college now, and she doesnβt even know my major. And my dad tries to be there for me.
A few weeks ago, she told me sheβs moving across the country with a boyfriend. I told her this hurt my feelings and was surprising to hear, and she called me selfish and entitled and went on a rant how my dad ruined her life and she deserves happiness. She said things like sheβs been waiting to die, my and because of my short world view I would never understand her suffering.
I told her that I just missed having a mom who was involved in my life, and she turned everything around on on my dad. Out of nowhere she goes βin my early 30s your dad told me he wished I was as hot as I was in my 20s. Thatβs when I knew I hated him.β And I was like why is this relevant? She was acting insane. And she really hurt my feelings and I had a panic attack during the conversation. I told her I was blocking her phone number and all she said was βtruth hurtsβ
I guess Iβm wondering if I should just cut her off for now and try to make amends with my dad. I have finals and this whole ordeal has been really overwhelming and affecting my daily life. And even if heβs done all these awful things to my mom, heβs my father and itβs not fair to him that Iβve been a bad daughter.
My life is kind of a whirlwind atm. So here I am. I have a lot of stories to tell, a lot of questions to answer, so why the hell not? I feel like there are a ton of misconceptions about mental illness that I can attempt to clear up. So please, ask anything.
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