Milku & Missed Years?

 Milku & Missed Years?

Movie Log – #GreatguyTV #CitizenCanada
Double feature: Molly (1999) and Death Wish (2018), both featuring Elisabeth Shue, whose eyes always seem to know more than the script. Streamed on Prime.
These were films from my “Lost Years,” but lost for vastly different reasons. Molly passed me by during my time in Japan, when American movies were rare birds and region codes ruled like warlords. Instead of Hollywood, I consumed life in fragments—subway poetry, dubbed samurai dramas, and vending machine Royal Milk Tea with Milku, warm in the palm and sweet as a secret.

Death Wish, meanwhile, slipped through the cracks during a time of family illness. My days were full of quiet dread and strange hope, like hospital corridors echoing with laughter that didn’t belong to me.

Now, watching these films side-by-side felt like encountering two versions of myself, each haunted by what I couldn’t name at the time. Shue plays a tender, vulnerable soul in Molly, and then a suburban mother lost to violence in Death Wish. Same actress, two ghosts of the same moon.

🎬 Trivia: Shue was nominated for an Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas—but many overlook how deeply she elevates even minor roles with quiet interiority.