Still Walking

hopefully what's below makes sense, but there are things i didn't pick up on, so it goes on the rewatch list. i honestly didn't pay as much attention as i should've, yet there's still so much to chew on. a great film and a great introduction to kore-eda it's a little boring, but a picture of brutal domesticity. many odd moments that made me cry, and cry moments that made me stop. i felt nostalgia for a time in the future. despite the entirely linear structure, what this movie reveals to me is the nonlinear aspect of life. things don't happen when you think. our pasts tend to control us because we don't want to let go. lifespans don't overlap for as long as we think. but when the do coincide, isn't it a little beautiful? for a short time, others walk with you. grief stays with you, and sometimes you grieve with others. and then you grieve those others, if you're lucky. you have to keep walking with it, and you won't ever stop walking with it until you die. and yet, it's something you can depend on. you have to keep walking because you'll be left behind.