Film Review: The Aviatrix November 20, 2008
Posted by Onely in As If!, film review, Reviews.Tags: cancer, happy ending, single and sick, superhero, the aviatrix
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I started this video with high hopes. A young woman with cancer draws herself as a body-armour-clad superhero and imagines fighting another woman in bright red body armour, who represents her cancer. Their fights, in a desert, rocky, otherworldly landscape, are interspersed with scenes from the woman’s life in her little suburban cottage. There is true-to-life tension with her mother, a true-to-life assholish doctor.
And then there’s the sensitive, funny lawn mowing guy. (more…)