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She's Rain

“𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬. 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺. 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦.” Boys who don’t know what to do. Girls with too many feelings. Teenhood is complicated, but what’s more complicated is expelling all those nuisances to the world. To be heard, to be seen. Be understood. Shiraha pivots players to bump heads through the inadequacies of the self through 80s dress and decor, shot on film, and you can’t help but feel charmed by it all. Set in summer, there’s a breeze that wafts through it all. Riding high on television melodrama with face cards that make you think back to first kisses and the last love. I can’t help but think something feels so stifled with the film. Perhaps mannerisms or the very virginized ways of moving through the world that feel cold in the very sharp framings of the film. Scene by scene, everything looks good, liveable, but I wonder if it really is the reservations of not yet knowing how to move through the adult world that stop this from becoming anymore more but that breeze. But I guess that’s what summer stops us from. From wanting the ocean a bit closer to us to calm hot nerves and free us from the heat that weighs us down. Soft hues with a gelato haze, rich in colors, it’s the perfect summer film, one I want to stay in for the next three months.