Emptiness, the feeling that comes with pain and loneliness after the departure of a loved one. This feeling cannot go away. Neither friends nor others can replace parents. After they are gone, life becomes different, colorless, and there are no new blank pages to start all over again. When you stay alone, pains surround you, you leave your body and look at yourself from the outside. You realize that you are in chaos, there is obscurity around you and there is no way out of it. You have only two choices: ...

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A prison is a place where a person’s word has no meaning. Everything is in the hands of only one person, the warden, and it is he who controls what will happen inside the walls. The weak rarely survive, the strong become watchers of the prison and are subject to the warden throughout their stay. Freedom ends at the prison door. The bars surround a person like a snake and suffocate him until he takes his last breath. Everything ...

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Freedom is a state that is hard to reach. People try to be in this state throughout their lives. Sometimes they manage it, sometimes not. Often, the state structure forces individuals to exist in a difficult situation. During the period of Soviet Union, citizens were in an information vacuum and thought that everything coming from Europe was bad and unacceptable. The state turned a blind eye to people. They lived in a country where gospel and music of free country were banned. They prayed silently,...

ESCAPE THAT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE FREEDOM Read More

People always have to leave someone, change the environment. Sometimes they do it by their own will, sometimes by force. They become entangled in a network of relationships and cannot find a way out, they do not know how to return to where they belong or they know but cannot return. In many cases, the majority of society has to fight for survival. They give up everything in order to make both ends...

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The main component of a film is the closely related story line. In order to consider a film completed, it is necessary to raise some kind of conflict in it and the developed events should be similar to the ways of its resolution. Ioseb (Soso) Bliadze's film "A Room Of My Own" (2022) does not fit these standards. It's not a single film, but a collage of two films and several themes, and it's missing more than enough to make it look like a complete, edited, composite work. The main storyline of the first part depicts Beka and Tina’s love story. "Love" is said a little too loudly. Their relationship is far from...

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აზარტული თამაშები თავს აკარგვინებს ადამიანს. ის აჩრდილივით უკან დასდევს მას და ამოსუნთქვის საშუალებას არ აძლევს. ნარკოტიკივით არის, ერთხელ თუ გასინჯე და მიეჩვიე, მერე გადაჩვევა შეუძლებელია. ლევან კოღუაშვილის ფილმი, „მეოთხე ბრაიტონი“ (2021) გადარჩენისათვის ბრძოლას ჰგავს. თითოეული პერსონაჟი ცხოვრებისა და მისი სირთულეების წინაშე გამართულ რინგზეა, იბრძვის და ცდილობს, თავი გადაირჩინოს. რიგ შემთხვევაში იმარჯვებს, მაგრამ უფრო ხშირად მარცხდება. …

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Man is a small, pitiful creature. He only thinks about his own well-being. He has a big ego that he satisfies and feeds all his life, he doesn't look beyond himself, he doesn't care what happens to others and how he will be, he doesn't want to bare his feelings and care for the other person, he doesn't recognize other people's problems until it affects him directly. He thinks that the more he puts his "self" forward, puffs out his heart and walks like that, the better he will appear in others’ eyes. People, sometimes, are so weak that they build their happiness on the misfortune ...

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Love is not an eternal feeling. It fades with time and gets lost in the swamp of family problems. Sometimes people try to save the relationship, but sometimes all the efforts end in failure. And still, what is love or what is it like? Perhaps, the character of Eldar Shengelaya's film "The Eccentrics," Khristofore Mgaloblishvili would say in its defense that love is vertical and rotating, but sometimes it is not like that at all. It is eternal longing or one big disappointment. Sometimes it looks like ...

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