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my favorite underrated movies

I’ve watched literally so many movies over these past few months, so I thought it it’d be cool to show some of my favorites

○ ginger & rosa (takes place in london 1962, about two friends and a betrayal that tears them apart)

○ 6 balloons (a struggling sister drives her heroin-addicted brother to a detox center with his 2 year old daughter in the car)

○ midnight special (pursued by the government and a religious cult, a father and his son, who possesses a special power, escape to safety)

○ king jack (boy, while dealing with a vicious bully, is to take care of his cousin for the weekend)

○ we the animals (a trio of brothers are left to cope with their parents destructive relationship, while the eldest is left pondering his sexuality)

○ philomena (a woman for the past fifty years is left looking for her son after he is taken away from her by nuns) 

○ chained (after his mother is murdered by a serial killer, her son is left captive by the man)

○ never let me go (not sure if this underrated) (three friends grow up together in a school on the countryside, but when they leave they’re left with the truth about their lives that could tear them apart)

○ summer of 84′ (davey armstrong and the help of three friends, hunt a serial killer who they think might be the neighbourhood cop)

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6 Balloons (USA, 2018)

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6 Balloons (Marja-Lewis Ryan, 2018)

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Sooooo I just watched 6 Balloons (a movie about addiction)...

For anyone who doesnt know what it's like to have an addict in your family, this is a great movie. Honestly. You see every type of person, when it comes to having someone with an addiction in your family or coming into contact with an addict.

You see it all.

Especially in the sister.

The guilt, the lies, the panic attacks, the gut-wrenching feeling of not knowing how to help them, the unhelpful healthcare system, the terror that you feel when you know that they're going to eventually kill themselves, the sadness of realizing that your loved one is now a shell of who they used to be, the circle of enabling...

You just love your family member so much that you endure the harsh judgements of those who don't understand. You endure the people who force their opinions about addiction on you, telling you that your loved one is a piece of shit and a waste of space.

It feels impossible to let go of the person that you love with your entire heart.

This movie... it broke my fucking heart, because I've been there.

My little brother is an addict/alcoholic.

I've dealt with these feelings for years. I've dealt with lying to family members. I've dealt with the harsh opinions. I've dealt with the panic attacks, not sleeping, worrying, stuff getting stolen, covering up, guilt, and pain.

I've been there, having my little sister come into my room in a panic because my little brother is passed out on her bedroom floor, having multiple seizures... Having to check my brother's pulse, and pretending that my heart isn't about to BURST out of my chest in a blind panic because my brother's life is in danger... Having to sit on the phone with the 911 operator, counting his shallow breaths, and panicking when they start to get more shallow...

Having my brother start to seize in my backseat after my grandma's birthday party, and my mom CLIMB into the back seat in a panic while I'm going 75mph down a busy highway, just to race to the hospital... Have a friend of mine basically roll her eyes when I say he's in the hospital for the 3rd time...

Have only 1 person in your life who is there for you, but not wanting to bother them because you're terrified that they'll get annoyed with the cycle you're stuck in and leave you... watching my parents nearly divorce multiple times, because my dad blames us for my brother's addictions... watching my mom cry over and over and over, because she thought she was going to lose her baby boy to this...

Enabling my brother's addiction with alcohol because I was worried he would go somewhere else to get it and not come home... realizing that I was enabling my brother, and blaming myself for every moment I helped his addiction... watching my family start to crumble before my very eyes, and not know what to do to stop it...

Watching my brother struggle with himself, wanting to get clean so bad, but not having the strength yet...

I've seen my brother go to treatment, too. That was the first time my chest has felt lighter. My baby brother was safe. He was getting better. He wanted to get better. His fight (which is 10000x harder than anything I've fought with) was almost over.

I was so proud that he wanted to better himself, and I got a real glimpse of the baby brother that I remembered. The boy (now man) who loves video games, who loves root beer, who laughs at jokes, who wants to watch movies with us, who has color back in his cheeks...

...I've also seen him start to spiral back into the other side of himself. I've came home to empty beer cans everywhere. I've came home to my stuff stolen, again. I've seen him start to withdraw back into himself, and stop going to therapy...

I guess, what I'm trying to do with telling you about my family's story is... give you a glimpse. If you want to make a comment about your opinion on addiction, think first before you speak (as you should in any situation).

You dont know what the person (or anyone who can hear you) is going through.

(Also, Im sorry, but if you claim that someone deserves to die because of their addiction... I feel sorry for your lack of empathy towards those who are struggling, and hope you never have to deal with something as awful as addiction.)

(Movie spoiler ahead)

At the end of this movie, she lets go of her brother and tells him that she will no longer bring him to rehab, and he's gotta want to do it for himself.

I agree with her choice. Though I may not have cut ties with my brother (and I never will), you CANNOT make your loved one's life better. Only they can do it. They gotta want it.

I highly reccommend this movie.

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Female cinematographers: Polly Morgan 6 Balloons (2018) Directed by Marja-Lewis Ryan

“The cinematographer’s name is Polly Morgan, and she was the most obvious choice, from the beginning. It was the easiest thing, for me, because she just really understood what I was trying to do. I was afraid of anything that feels flat or bright. I was like, “I don’t want anything that looks like a movie.” You know? I wanted it to feel like we were there, a little more. And then, the roaming coverage stuff, of Abbi [Jacobson]’s face, or even Dave [Franco], when he’s starting to come down, and there’s a lot of hands, and stuff: that was very much her idea. I mean, that was something that she really insisted on, because she was like, “You’re going to want to cut to this. I don’t know why.” Actually, she didn’t sound like that, but more like (with English accent), “You’re going to want to…”” — Marja-Lewis Ryan