Alexander Payne sees his perspectives in slices of life and the motivations that precipitate it. "The Holdovers", set at a prep school in Massachusetts where kids whose parents decided to leave them there over the holidays for whatever reason, are saddled with a stuck-in-his-ways professor who must adjust his perspective in ways in order to see where he is going.

The context of "Asteroid City" reflects in its idea of reflexive personality. While its fuel comes from the itterance in many ways of director Wes Anderson's previous film "The French Dispatch", it does come off as a little more disjointed than the superior "The Grand Budapest Hotel". That said, all of Anderson's films are brilliant in many ways, even those that aren't exactly perfect.

"The Northman" revolves in a texture of revenge but also of perception. Alexander Skarsgard stars as Amleth, the son of a Nordic king that is dealt a trauma as a child that informs his entire life even as he struggles to deal with the notion of his existence.

"Belfast" is Kenneth Branagh's love letter but also his contemplation on his youth within the context of family. There is an interesting balance here that is sometimes achieved but most of the time it is too subtly progressed despite a very clear path.

The essence of perception always builds in the ideas of what can be seen. The texture of "Last Night In Soho" can be a reflection of two truths but with both being paved in a necessity of their own existence. Both lives that the story follows can be misjudged or misaligned.