Movie Recommendation Time: After.

There are just about many themes a film has had in this new age of story writing: zombie apocalypse, dreams, nightmares, robots, dystopian and utopian worlds, imagined realities, pandemic virus, time traveling, e.g. There are a few that, while its concept is in ink, are superimposed with an innovative twist, and they unanimously become one of the original films of that time. For example, the underrated Snowpiercer and The Returned of 2013 (below).

2012 was the year of the dragon, and there were a handful films that personally didn't dragged on because they expressed a storyline so unique and so imaginative they breathe fire. Where does Russovoir even begin? - Man On the Ledge, Chronicle, The Cabin In the Woods, Battleship, Moonrise Kingdom, Ruby Sparks, Premium Rush, Looper, Pitch Perfect. That's about all the films of 2012*. So later, you can just imagine how frustrated Russovoir has been when he discovered three years a span a film so enfeeblingly brilliant it was the first thing that came to mind waking up, like the first pulse on a flatline. 

Steven Strait is a perfect cast. Russovoir couldn't diagnose why; it could be from the calm in his eyes, the foam around his mouth. Strait is always this working face reference. People can't put a finger on him. Admittedly, he came as a stranger, or better yet, a long lost friend. Getting to know him again through this film was the best part.

Warren Peace in Sky High (2005).

Some of you might think the title After is short and sweet, and some ineffective and weak. That issue already has had bothered Russovoir and thought after how the film made him feel, it doesn't really matter now. Co-written and directed by Ryan Smith, your left brain and your right brain will already have done each separately: bored and confused. Russovoir asks of you to stay with it, stay with the characters, their individual lives slowly and beautifully unfold and meet. Only then we will have felt as though we blacked out throughout and woke up relieved with a second life. Mostly, strait to the heart.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know."

*Academy Award nominees and winners not included.