"Lenox Hill" (2020) is a reality series from Netflix where we follow a group of neurosurgeons and their attempts to save the lives of patients that suffer from different kinds of brain cancers. Why am I suggesting this? Because I just watched Don Hertzfeldt's excellent "It's Such a Beautiful Day" (2011), part three of the "Bill Trilogy", the story of a man with a sickness that is never named, but that could undoubtedly be one of the hopeful Lenox Hill souls. The trilogy is composed by three animated shorts that make a single story, so I recommend you all to watch it in its entirety. The Netflix series and Hertzfeldt's fantasy complement each other quite well, since you get to experience both sides of something that affects the core of the self.
"Looks That Kill" (2020, Kellen Moore) is a Young Adult fantasy about a boy that has a face so beautiful that can kill people, thus must hide it with bandages. He befriends a plain looking girl with health problems. Both of them supposedly want the opposite sex to pursue them because of their personalities. Instead of wasting one hour and a half in this hypocritical hogwash, you could try to understand what changed Che Guevara's life when he visited a leper colony. Lepers are people with a very evident condition that produces rejection upon view. The best Persian poet of the 20th Century, Forough Farrokhzad, directed a short film that shone light into the unwanted ("The House is Black"). Like Tod Browning before ("Freaks"), Farrokhzad finds the human behind the sickness and poverty and validates their existance. Here they are, not represented by a commercial machine in search of marginal gains but in their own flesh.
TSPDT 2020 ranking : 332
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