I enjoyed Cloud Atlas (fiction, both book and movie). It’s a movie where relatively normal people did hard things because they were the right thing to do, not because movie morality entailed a just world hypothesis where good things happen to good people, or because the movie’s characters were personally and emotionally invested in specific outcomes.
I think this is relatively rare in fiction, which is why I like the movie. I’ve told several EA friends about the movie and they liked it too.
I also watch movies about ordinary people resisting during World War II (eg, John Rabe for nonfiction and Jojo Rabbit for fiction), especially if it’s from the perspective of the Axis.
I enjoyed Cloud Atlas (fiction, both book and movie). It’s a movie where relatively normal people did hard things because they were the right thing to do, not because movie morality entailed a just world hypothesis where good things happen to good people, or because the movie’s characters were personally and emotionally invested in specific outcomes.
I think this is relatively rare in fiction, which is why I like the movie. I’ve told several EA friends about the movie and they liked it too.
I also watch movies about ordinary people resisting during World War II (eg, John Rabe for nonfiction and Jojo Rabbit for fiction), especially if it’s from the perspective of the Axis.
+1, a lot of David Mitchell’s metafiction-y books have EA vibes (huge scope, interwoven characters doing the right thing for unknown future others)