Films to see . "Little Joe"

I’m sure by now people are tired of the description “Sounds like an episode of Black Mirror.” But it’s an easy, fitting reaction to reading about the plot of Little Joe. I’d be down to see it.

“…a story about scientists endeavoring to create a houseplant that makes its owner happy when they smell it. The plant, the scientists say, will help cure depression and anxiety around the world.“

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/5/29/18633293/cannes-2019-best-movies-tarantino-parasite-lady-fire

Film to see . "A Hidden Life"

I’m going to have to keep track of the wider release date for this, because it sounds interesting as heck.

Summarization via Vox:

“Set during World War II and based on a true story, A Hidden Life — the latest film from Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, Badlands, Days of Heaven) — is about Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who could have lived a prosperous life if he’d agreed to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler. But he refused. A Hidden Life is Malick’s most overtly political film and one of his most religious, urgent, and sometimes even uncomfortable because of what it says — to everyone, but specifically to Christians in places where they’re the majority — about the warp and weft of courage. It also seems designed to lodge barbs in a comfortable audience during an era of rising white nationalism. “

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/5/29/18633293/cannes-2019-best-movies-tarantino-parasite-lady-fire