Collateral Beauty

Love, Time, Death We long for Love, we wish we had more Time, and we fear Death. I don't care what anyone says. This movie is a MASTERPIECE. It explores the problems of life, and the different ways to deal with them. Howard is a great character, charismatic at the start, and then totally changed into a ghost after his daughter Olivia's death. Moved by this impotence against the universe, he decides to write 3 letters to the 3 abstractions, arguing with them to understand *WHY his daughter had to die ... * The characters of Simon, Claire and Whit are not simple support characters, but real protagonists. They also have to deal with personal problems, and need Howard to take his life back into his hands, remember his responsibilites, not only as a boss ... but as a friend. Just be sure to notice the Collateral BeautyNo one does until the end of the movie. No one tries to fight for a change, to appreciate life even during hard times. They simply ... get lost in a cosmic sea, moved uncontrollably buy the same 3 abstractions. - Simon deals with Death, fighting it in the worst way possible ... alone; - Claire fights with Time, thinking it's too late for her to have a family; - Whit is a victim of Love, it destroyed his marriage but then ... he wasn't able to communicate the same emotion to his only daughter. If only we could be strangers againAt the end, everyone needed each other. Without dealing with the "Actors", Howard would have never come back to normal... and, without Howard, White, Claire and Simon would have never realised where they went wrong. The 3 letters where a gift to everyone, as they all had to deal with the same cosmic entities that control human rela This movie will always make me feel emotional. The ending sequence, in Howard's old house, with Olivia on the TV left me teary eyed more than once. And "One Republic - Let's Hurt Tonight" is one of my favourite songs . . .