Television review In Casey Affleck’s film, a father protects his son’s daughter in the near future, where a pandemic has killed almost all women

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Drama

The light of my life ★★★

Light of My Life, USA 2019, Theme at 9 pm and Yle Arena (12)

Casey Affleck has been told that he was never told good night’s fairy tales. In the film he wrote and directed The light of my life she portrays a father who always tells the story of his 11-year-old daughter (Anna Pniowsky).

Let’s live in the near future where a pandemic has killed almost all women. The child’s mother is dead, and the father hides the daughter, believed to be the son, from an unpredictable outside world. In the face of others, oitis escapes to find a new hiding place.

Destruction the post-Western, often neo-barbaric world is one of the basic subjects of scientific imagination. Affleck, however, sticks to describing the relationship between a father dedicated to protecting his child and a girl growing up on the eve of puberty: dystopia even begins with a ten-minute evening story.

But how and where can a loving father refuse a growing girl who has never seen women and who learns that her sex is inherently a danger?

A young man who meets by chance talks about his community’s bunker warehouse, where the “females” are tethered. The girl is becoming more and more aware of her sexuality. Of course, Affleck, a film artist himself freed from sexual accusations, more broadly reflects the values ​​of our times and communities – from religions to sex education.