Review: cocoon -One Summer of Girlhood paints a potent and precise portrait of war
I keep starting and erasing and re-starting this review. It's hard to know how to begin. Sometimes, I watch a movie, and when I sit down to type up my thoughts after, it just flows out. Other times, like now, I find myself struggling with how I want to get into cocoon -One Summer of Girlhood . I could talk about how animation is often dismissed as a medium for kids, which obviously isn't the case. I could bring up some of the other animated movies that touch on war, and how this deserves to be listed alongside the best in the genre. But it all feels so simple, too easy, not as good or interesting or impactful as this movie deserves. I've rarely been as deeply moved by a movie as I was by cocoon , and I don't know how to put into words its profound impact, the power of its vision and message. But I want to try. As I'm writing this, it's the opening weekend of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey , one of the year's finest movies. When I put cocoon on, I wasn...
