Like Vin Diesel says time and time again: "It's all about family". On this week of Gruncle's Movie Month we honor this hallowed sentiment from Mr. Diesel and apply it to the intellectual masterclass discourse you know and love us for. With this triptych of familial relations we touch on everything from inter-generational trauma to fraternal and national civil war to the composite that is a family unit. It's family talking about family people, meta-as-heck amirite?
The films discussed are Ken Loach's 2006 Irish historical tale,The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Charles Burnett's 1990 modern-folkloric domestic melodrama To Sleep with Anger, and maybe just one of the greatest film of all time with Edward Yang's 2000 film Yi Yi.
