#SilverScreenBlack reviews: 'The Public' (2018)

(1hr 54mins)

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📣Dog Day Evening: Cincinnati Library becomes a battleground to save 70 homeless souls from freezing to death.

👍Hail Caesar!:
There's a stunning ensemble cast here, with at least ten essential characters on screen. That they are all believable is down to good writing and great acting.
And if you don't leave this film without a smile on your face and a fire in your belly, then call a paramedic. Immediately.

👎Life in the Freezer:
This film won't be top of Cincinnati Visitors Bureau's 'must see' list.
And it may leave you with an incredible urge to become a librarian, followed by a deep regret that you've wasted your life up until now...

📽️Favourite scene:
The police readying themselves to breach the barricade.
Nothing could prepare them for what's on the other side...

🥇Best quote:
"Why do all this? To shake the tree. To let them know that we still matter. God gives us all a voice. It's up to us whether we use it or stay silent. We got to raise the level. We got to raise some noise."

🙁Best depressing quote:
"There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolise. And in the eyes of the people, there is a failure; and in the eyes of the hungry, there is a growing wrath. And in the soul of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling, and growing heavy for the vintage."

⏳Best lockdown quote:
"I do go home sometimes and just cry myself to sleep because... I mean, we're only human, right?"





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