![]() ![]() I got the feeling from his performance that he wished he could have done more for her, that he wanted more out of his own life. In the story, Will is responsible for picking a successor to Amanda, a violin prodigy whose life met with a tragic end. Oda forms a very yin-yang relationship between the two. Beets’ personae on-screen lights up a room and stands in stark contrast to the ever-steady Duke. Zazie Beets plays Emma, a free-spirited but optimistic individual. Wong, who I first saw in Danny Boyle’s “Sunshine” from 2007, struck me with his performance then and as Kyo, continues to impress. ![]() He is supported by Kyo, played by a very human Benedict Wong. Oda, who also wrote the screenplay, created a very controlled environment where Winston Duke plays Will, a gatekeeper, or rather an arbiter, judging souls who enter his isolated home in the salt flat deserts. When we apply this meaning to Edson Oda’s feature debut, “Nine Days,” we are asked to consider not just the meaning of life itself, but the moments that sum up our existence – to truly reflect on what makes us, us. ![]() Looking up “existentialism” in the dictionary, it is a noun meaning ‘a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.” ![]()
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