Mila (2020)

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Panunzio
Another interesting pearl from the Greek weird wave. Raises questions on the value of human experience, and their role in our perspective of the self. 2 years 6 months ago
Siskoid
If you could forget everything and start over, would you? Christos Nikou's Apples asks the question. There's this amnesia pandemic going around, and looking at the protagonist's life before he's taken to hospital, it seems like he's already living in a sort of forgetting. As he is given a new identity and tasks to perform to perhaps shake his memories loose, we might wonder if there isn't some joy in the amnesia. Rediscovering movies and music as if for the first time, for example. But also terror, as hardwired fears and weaknesses are exposed. Apples, the ironic Fruit of Knowledge, are the only thing the character knows he likes. And there's perhaps another amnesiac he might fancy. But the road to self-(re)discovery is a bumpy one, and connecting with people doesn't get easier when your past has been erased (this is a COVID movie, if by some distance, but certainly a film about depression). There's a dark humor at work, the humor inherent in the absurd, but mostly, a sadness. 3 months 1 week ago