The meaning behind \u2018Easy living\u2019 is addressed in the film, with a heart to heart between the characters, Don begins to say that he no longer wants to do this \u2018easy living\u2019 as he\u2019s unhappy with his situation and he\u2019s willing to take the risk of helping Elvis. The characters’ developments and arcs are inspiring. As Don has the biggest arc, he develops from a man who\u2019s afraid to commit a crime of sneaking Elvis across the border and who ran away from his problems in America and is hiding in Italy to someone who wants to help a friend he made.<\/span><\/p>\n The message behind this film is something I also really appreciated this film. This film\u2019s message and goal were to create a friendship between unlikely people. Relevant to a lot of countries today who see lots of immigrants. It\u2019s a message that could reach a broad audience. The directors mentioned this is in the Q&A, that they wanted to create this humane feeling of becoming friends with immigrants, where these very different people become friends, play games and laugh together. Showing to people that you can be friends with people you\u2019d never thought could be your friend. Elvis goes from a stranger to becoming a dear friend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The cinematography was very beautiful. The location was beautiful and the film throughout had a lot of scenic shots of the beachfront. One-shot that really struck me was the scene when Elvis and the rest set off into the plan and Elvis leaves his beach chair at the beach. It seems very symbolic, almost as if he\u2019s leaving and planning on not coming back.<\/span><\/p>\n I would recommend this film to people because it has you emotionally invested by the end. Seeing these people come together to help Elvis reunite with his wife is moving. This film made the audience sympathize with Elvis, who just couldn\u2019t get to his pregnant wife just because of an imaginary line. The way the directors portrayed Elvis as anybody else and created a friendship between these characters was touching, almost inspiring especially for me coming from a family of immigrants.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviewed by Maria Loza. Viewed at The Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2020. Easy living was an amazing aiming film, leaving the theatre, I felt the need to go watch it again because it was an incredible film. The characters and their development was something so heartfelt and so realistic to what is going on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/247889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46750"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46813,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46750\/revisions\/46813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}