Adaptations are a tricky thing. Adapting a contemporary work is almost always hard to justify, especially when the original work is so universally lauded. It’s not the same as adapting Shakespeare into contexts completely foreign to the original work. The Last of Us, the show and the game, inevitably has the same point to make.

Before I watched Death of a Unicorn, it was characterised by only two traits in my head. A24 plus Some Surreal Fantastical elements.

Martin Scorcese’s Silence, the story of Catholic missionaries persecuted in Shogunate Japan, was based, not so directly, on his crises of faith. Ryan Coogler goes a step further, and makes a film that doesn’t reflect upon his journey as a creative or as a person but upon the journey that was yet to come.