a movie about what happens when one ordinary person runs into institutions much bigger than himself.
the state, the church, money, bureaucracy, local power, all of them slowly become parts of the same machine.
what makes it hit so hard is that nobody needs to be a cartoon villain.
the system itself is enough.
the title could not be more appropriate.
sometimes the monster is not a person.
it is everything around you working exactly as designed. image
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