such a beautiful movie in its own right. magically, first time feel right to have a movie in black and white. often thought childhood is the most carefree period and forgot it's also almost the most sensitive time, compelled to take in the turbulences from surrounding environments, and struggled to cope as much as adults, so not really an easy time in retrospect. this movie covers this topic with such tenderness and well crafted structure, nicely done
i did see quite a few obviously symbolic scenes (e.g. veronica raising the torch/burning down the crematorium/airplanes flying over in the end) but it's still lazy and too shallow of a "revenge fantasy" when it could've activated a genuine conversation about race and inequity, instead of just trivializing veronica's victimization & idealizing her success. and for that reason i'm disappointed