![]() ![]() That doesn’t mean the film didn’t experiment with its vision. While it’s shot in real locations with a lot of moving camera footage, it does manage to keep up its production quality and pulling it off with all the lockdown restrictions. In these parts, the film unveils its uplifting themes. During their musings, we get a powerful portrait of human resilience. She’s still dealing with the loss of her late husband while assuring her precocious child that she’s going to pick up the broken pieces. Danny’s tiredness and grief catch up with her every now and then. ![]() Watching I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking) is a lot like watching Pursuit of Happiness but with two-folds of the hardships (on and off-screen). Not that she asked because as the title suggests, she tells people she’s fine. She’s a Black woman up against economic decline, a completely altered market demand, men who are only waiting to take advantage of her helplessness while she’s exhausted from skating all day and old friends who would rather offer meaningless advice than lend her a few bucks. Even without that kind of lockdown paranoia, Danny’s story is incredibly frustrating. ![]() The crisis is a sharp reminder of how having a home and a steady cash flow is something to be grateful for and that it can be taken away at any time. Millions of people, apart from the 1 percenters and the privileged, are struggling to make ends meet. The other is the now-familiar issue of housing and income instability with job losses and pay cuts across the globe. That’s only one part of why watching the film is difficult to watch. I 'm Fine (Thanks For Asking)'s visual tone is one you can feel, the unforgivingly hot sun on a summer day and the addition of a mask. The odds aren't on her side and neither is the weather. Between hair appoints with difficult clients and food delivery runs that lead her to the door of Karen-like customers, she traverses the length and breadth of the city with only her conviction and wit to rely on. Danny sets out on her trusty pair of leopard print roller skates across the streets of COVID-hit Los Angeles completing odd jobs to just enough (she's 200 dollars short) to make the deposit on a deadline. SXSW's narrative feature competition category has its fair share of movies about economic hardships and personal tragedies but none speak to our unprecedented times (lest we forget we're still living through a pandemic) in such piercing detail. ![]() While she looks for work to raise money for a security deposit on a new apartment, she has been living in a tent with her young daughter Wes (Wesley Moss) who thinks they have been camping the whole time.Ī surprisingly uplifting film about pandemic struggles. The film is a debut directorial for Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina who put together the COVID-19 pandemic story of a recently widowed single mother named Danny (played by Kelley Kali) who finds herself homeless and jobless. However, capturing our reality through a thought-provoking empathetic lens is necessary, I'm Fine (Thanks for Asking) which premiered at SXSW online is that necessary kind of reminder. Most of us don't need a reminder of how difficult surviving has been in the past year and not to mention the overwhelming loss. What was expected to end after a few weeks of lockdown has turned in almost a year (depending on where you live) of social distancing, self-isolation and everything else that comes with a global pandemic. under the blistering afternoon sun, a story of socio-economic hardships and human resilience plays out. As Danny stakes across the streets of L.A. In ‘I’m Fine (Thanks For Asking), filmmakers Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina create a now-familiar picture about living amidst the global pandemic shot during the pandemic. ![]()
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