An astute piece of filmmaking which manages to transverse the coming-of-age storyline through its highly compelling characterizations and thematic assertions, Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd is a story about personal introspection and external companionship, detailing the evolving relationship between Aunt and Niece, two characters, who couldn't be more different, brought together by shared trauma and their own personal quest for fulfillment in life. Featuring a main protagonist in Cyd whom is inquisitive yet intrusive, driven by a care-free adolescent spirit which is intoxicating, Princess Cyd as a film divulges into a powerful testament to the paramount nature of personal fulfillment, juxtaposing this more care-free nature of Cyd with the more spiritual, reserved, and intellectual nature of her Aunt. These two characters while different, serve as a mirror to each other, a reflection, each of which challenging the other to find personal satisfaction and happiness in what they do and who they are. Through these two characters personal journey, the filmmakers capture how fulfillment in life is completely different from person to person, celebrating how our differences are what gives us strength, while rejecting the notion that there is any appropriate way to find happiness in life. Our shared experiences in life are often not related to personal interests, which vary from person-to-person, but in our shared pursuit of such fulfillment, the universal and connective aspect of our shared humanity which Princess Cyd exudes through its funny and poignant narrative.
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