The premise of this movie seems interesting but it falls short by executing all the dots of the modern inclusive and gender critical fads. Instead of dealing with poverty and ignorance as a heritage of class oppression it puts it as something that can be remedied by wishfull thinking. All the indigenous males are depicted as by nature predatory and misogynistic, but it is just a anacronistic oversimplification of relations in a family overcome with poverty. It also completely negates that historically this family would not be such a nuclear family of parents, two or three kids and a grandparent without much more diverse relations with cousins, aunts etc. It feels like a projection of a modern reduced and alienated family to a wrong place in temporal continuum. I mean that maybe it could work for that times contempory upper middle class, but making this story in lower class or lumpenproletariat just feels plastic. I don't know, for me it just seems like a denigration of the exploited with added touch of saintly other in the role of black american soldier. It fails as a memento to incredible legacy of italian neorealism. The true keepers of this legacy can be found in iranian movies like Baran or Children of heaven. English is not my native language so excuse me for strange syntaxes.
Review of There's Still Tomorrow
