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The story of Wojtek is surreal, but A Bear Named Wojtek knew that its role wasn't to just tell Wojtek's story, but the story of Poland. This movie is beautiful, from start to finish, and it shows brilliantly the story of Poland during and after the Second World War. A country betrayed twice, destroyed, and swallowed by the USSR. This movie doesn't tell you any of this, but it shows you how it felt for the Polish people caught in the horrors of their country's history.

Wojtek serves as a catalyst for all these feelings of despair, grief, and fervent solidarity, not only for the soldiers and their country, but for the viewers.

There is nothing more memorable than a movie that sticks. From start to finish, Captain Fantastic consistently asks its audience to question our society and more than anything its education. This becomes evident when the children are confronted to their two cousins who are addicted to their phones, play violent video games, dislike their school and learn little to nothing there. We are shown, quite blatantly, that while school does help us socialise and know of some of the world arounds us, it fails at creating the self-thinking adults we need to sustain our democracies.

Despite recently becoming a teacher, Captain Fantastic even convinces me of how despotic our system is, and how much it needs to change.

Ah, the beauty of Anatomy of a Fall lies in its ambiguity-it doesn't hand you a neat answer. The film is more interested in exploring how truth can be subjective and shaped by perspective. Whether Sandra (Sandra Hüller's character) did it or not is left intentionally open-ended, keeping viewers in suspense and sparking debates long after the credits roll. It's less about the "did she?" and more about how we interpret the evidence, emotions, and human flaws presented to us. What's your theory? My take? I lean toward her being innocent but emotionally complex. The film seems to suggest that relationships can be messy, with heated arguments that don't necessarily equate to guilt.