Train Dreams

The moment I finished this film, I don’t even know how overwhelmed I was. I couldn’t bring myself to write or log this film at that moment. I am writing this now. I have a lot to say and appreciate about this film. Every frame, every scene, every shot from the film was ghostlike, subdued but overwhelming. Haunting in its simplicity. It kept lingering and lingering in my thoughts. Achingly beautiful. Damn, I don’t have many words to describe it. It’s ethereal! The idea of narrating the film through another narrator was a great choice. From the beginning to the end, it doesn’t beg for attention -it stays. It’s so restrained it hurts. Like an elegy disguised as a film. This felt like time itself. Probably the most bittersweet, most human, and most realistic ending I have seen in a while. *The way Grainier used to go to work and come back, they spend their beautiful time, then he goes back again, and on and on - I was so lost in it.* And the visuals -forests, animals, fire, snow, silence. Oh my gosh. And the tragedy. A *man being erased by time. **He is just existing, and that’s so haunting. **Like how we disappear so quietly. *Like how the world remembers progress, not people. And also one of the most mature filmmaking experiences in a while. Another great thing about this film is how it shows grief without drama. Oh gosh. Like, it happens, and then life continues. And I loved how Robert was not talking much - like his whole personality. The most devastating idea in the film: Most lives are never remembered. Not because they lacked value but because the world moves on. * * "When Robert grainier died in his sleep > Sometime in November of 1968" > "His life ended as quietly as it had begun" > "He'd never purchased a forearm or spoken into a telephone > He had no idea who his parents might have been and he left no heirs behind him." > "But on that spring day as he misplaced all sense of up and down > He felt ,at last , connected to it all" Best film of 2025 for me :/