My Year Of Drama

Streaming reviews

- Philip Cu Unjieng

Here are two films that play up the drama, and do so within very topical settings. Together is set during the COVID lockdown in London, while Wild Indian speaks of the social dilemma that Native Americans face today.

Together (Video On Demand) – We’ve read often enough about shooting within a bubble, and how production can go on even during lockdown; but it hasn’t been often that we’ve had a film from the West that specifically deals with the lockdown, and tries to humanize what we’ve been going through over the last year and a half. This film does that exactly, as it opens in March 2020, as Britain is about to go into lockdown. We see a married couple, played by James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan, bringing their groceries and essential goods into the house they share with their special needs son. And with cutting humor, the two are on a tear, explaining how they actually hate each other, and if wasn’t for their son, they wouldn’t be together anymore, and how lockdown will be virtual Hell.