Directed by Todd Haynes the movie is kind of interesting. For example toward the beginning you have a very weird, but absolutely fantastic decision, to have a dramatic zoom on Moore's character as she says that they have not enough hot-dogs. Otherwise the movie is not trying to be fancy. It is very grainy. Kind of low-budgety. The camera is mostly very static. It's not trying to go Spielberg. It knows what it wants to show and it does it well. There are a lot of single shots that are very long in the film, all of which have interesting composition. The camera doesn't move, but what the camera sees is interesting non-the-less.
Quite frankly, my dad chooses rather good ones compared to other parents. I've been at home of one of my cousins. She watched a dumb show that is so unwatchable, I don't even know how can a child enjoy this. My father chooses shows that are slightly technical in nature. Shows about science and engineering done in a format of a dumb kids show. Don't get me wrong. It's still kids shows that are rather unwatchable. All of the characters are still flat and way too helpful to each other. There is no villain in any of those stories. And all they do is explain one topic about science in such a way that a toddler with little vocabulary could understand.
The main praise I could give the movie is how the main character is portrayed. You know if there is a bad-ass female warrior, she tends to wear very little clothes. Or be covered with tight leathery clothes. And while it could be awesome, it's not what Chocolate went for. I think Chocolate invented the Japanese Kawaii Metal genre popularized by the Japanese metal band Babymetal. It is a very thorough mix of brutality and cuteness. The main character Zen is insanely cute. Not sexy, cute. She wears regular kosher clothes. She wears baggy pants. And she looks like a child. And due to her autism even acts like a toddler at times. And this combined with her insane martial arts bad-assery, makes the movie very emotionally stimulating.
Mendel: What if she goes onto the road to explore something? Like there is a great chance that she doesn't want to be hit by a car. She just doesn't know about the car. Or she assumes that she can just run away from the car. Should we allow a small toddler to just freely go onto the road like this?