20,000 Species of Bees (2023)★ 7.0/10

The acting is really touching, and the audiovisual language is good, but the overall pacing is strange and not very crisp, and some of the content design is quite slow. The script was a bit formulaic and the ending didn’t achieve the effect I was looking for.

With the exception of the ending, gender and identity are presented only as a symbolic suffering with an unclear meaning.

I appreciate this approach to creating something that doesn't use the issue first, but instead relies on touching the edges of one's surroundings to generate questions and doubts. There are admittedly a lot of confusing parts in the movie, but there will undoubtedly be moments that shine through. Movies need to have both qualities - sincerity from the creation, and sincerity from the creator.

I loved it. It's so rare to slow down storytelling and still make a seemingly generalized topic so moving and sincere. The movie starts from a child's world, and it's ultimately the adults who can't reconcile; the hilarity of the gender perspective is still so brutal when placed on an individual. People can't let go of the norms and concepts of the paradigm they're in, not realizing that children teach us how to let go of ourselves every day.

It's beautifully and softly shot, and easy to empathize with. But whether the girl's self-identity crisis or the mother's career-family crisis, the characters are consistently confused and repetitive without change (except for the ending). A plot that barely progresses gradually loses one's attention. But it's fortunate that the ending is an open-ended one containing metaphors, otherwise the movie would inevitably fall into a rut.

So subtle and powerful! It's so rare for this female director to be so solid in her first feature. The cut-in perspective is gentle, loving and relieving. The movie very wisely chooses not to provide answers, but to be true to the dilemmas and contradictions of the moment. The women in the family are all brilliantly portrayed.

It’s a story of three generations of "women" in the shadow of patriarchy. The meeting of the child and the older woman is the closest moment to divinity. When Lucia awakens and walks away from the screams of patriarchal tradition, the shame of her body is finally accepted by all her loved ones. The emotional nuances are so moving.

Standard or excellent sight and sound; the graphics are beautiful but the narrative pace is just too slow, not my type. The kids were all so good, and it was still moving when the brother called out to Lucia at the end. It felt like the struggle with gender identity wasn't shown too much; it was so restrained that it was anything but.

A atuação é comovente e a linguagem audiovisual é boa, mas o ritmo é estranho, sendo meio lento em alguns momentos. O roteiro é um pouco estereotipado e o final não chegou onde eu esperava.

Com exceção do final, gênero e identidade são apresentados como um sofrimento simbólico e de significado pouco claro.

Gosto dessa abordagem para criar algo que não utiliza o problema primeiro, mas, em vez disso, depende de tocar os limites do ambiente para gerar perguntas e dúvidas. Há muitas partes confusas no filme, mas, sem dúvida, existem momentos que brilham. Os filmes precisam ter ambas as qualidades: sinceridade desde a criação e sinceridade do criador.