With Eliza Hittman's latest film revolving around such a hot-button issue as abortion, the film is remarkably graceful, never divulging into polemics or melodrama, focusing much more on the humanist element than any type of political diatribe. Evoking such a sense of intimacy through its formalist sensibilities in which the close-up is used with tactical precision, Never Rarely Sometimes Always has a pensive temperament, one with conviction but also self-aware enough to recognize the social and emotional complexities of such a transformative event. Institutional failure and the geographical-based inequalities of care are encapsulated with resolve and yet the ambiguity of the story centered around the "inciting incident" is a masterful tactic which really helps this film reach its potential. Strengthening the film's intent and ambitions through showing an unwillingness to define all the terms of its story, Never Rarely Sometimes Always manages to be expansive and substantive in its depiction of female autonomy and their secondary status in a patriarchal society. High-end drama is cheap and frankly vulgar when detailing such an issue and Hittman's film refuses such moments, recognizing that it's often in the subtleties of social interaction- the small moments which are excused as common place- where the oppression of the status quo prevails. Detailing a hotly contest issue with intimacy, Eliza Hittman's latest work exhibits moral and thematic clarity through a simple, efficient narrative which feels deeply expansive when it comes to detailing one of the ongoing political debates of our time.
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