Only steady work can truly make the world a better place.

Only steady work can really make the world a better place.

tokyonitro “Until Our Worlds Intersect” is a slap in the face to all narcissism ridden creators. Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard), a high school student, is proud to be able to earn money by posting his songs on the Internet. Then a girl in his class falls in love with him, a so-called “political” girl, and he can’t keep up with her at all →… tokyonitro → Ziggy manages to get her attention by performing her own poem…a poem for the Marshall Islands…a victim of colonialism and climate problems. A poem for the Marshall Islands…”, she performs it with a song and puts it on the internet to get the most money ever thrown at it. When Ziggy gleefully reports it, her words are not praise, but anger.

tokyonitro →“What’s the point of making money? Ziggy is disappointed when his mother, with whom he just had a fight, goes to a welfare facility where she works… Ziggy is disappointed and goes to the welfare facility where his mother works, but…

tokyonitro I felt the sincerity of the director Jesse Eisenberg in the line “Only steady work can really make the world a better place. On the other hand, there is a redeeming quality in the final scene where the father and son find something in Ziggy’s song that unites them in their quarrels. We need to pay attention to the world and to someone close to us! This film made me keenly aware of that. End

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