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Netflix Spaceman: The Beginning and End of Love

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"Spaceman" is adapted from the book "Bohemia" by Czech writer Jaroslav Kaffar. It is directed by Johan Lenk, who won the Emmy Award for Best Miniseries Director for "Homeland", and stars a cast of Including Adam Sandler in "The Winning Scout", Carey Mulligan in "The Master: True Love" and Paul Dino in "Fabelmann" . The plot tells the story of an astronaut who went on a mission to the solar system alone. After a half-year mission, he gradually became aware of the estrangement between him and his wife and his deteriorating mental state. It was not until an unexpected encounter with an alien creature that he finally faced the past. Everything I had been running from. Carrying the poetic philosophy of "Alien Arrival", it tells the love proposition of "Marriage Story" If compared with other science fiction films of the same type, you may feel that "Alone in Space" is a bit bland and lacks the sense of ...

The Parades 2024 Netflix Review - A Journey of Love Beyond Death

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"The Parades" directed by Michio Fujii is available on Netflix. The plot describes a mother Minako (Masami Nagasawa) who wants to find her missing son after a disaster, but finds that she has already died and is still trapped in Manchuria. It is the underworld of wronged souls. The people here include the bar owner Kaori (Terajima Shinobu) who wants to see her granddaughter born , the director Mike (Nakagawa Masaya) who wants to finish the unfinished movie , and Akira (Sakaguchi Kentaro) who claims that he simply wants to record everything he lives here . And Seungri (Yokohama Meteor) , who died in a mafia vendetta but still couldn't forget his girlfriend . Because they had unfinished business before their death, they couldn't go there. Minako went from being unable to accept her own death and building a wall against the people around her, to slowly entering their lives and becoming a part of everyone, helping each other complete unfinished business. It has the flavor...