Lis

> ***“They send you here for life, that’s exactly what they take. The part that counts anyway.“*** Life sentences are for one thing only: to take you from yourself.

> ***“I get the feeling everyone is asking themselves questions”*** It’s quite upsetting to think my mom would be my best friend if I knew her as a teenager. I didn’t just lose a best friend, I lost the chance to actually meet, the person that raised me, fully. Everything about this movie either feels like a warm hug or a cold shower. Wish I could meet my mom and know her, as a person, not as a mother. That’s part of what makes this movie so heartwarming. That’s not about time travel or fantasy — it’s about childhood, grief, frustration, and the undying wish to meet our parents outside of their roles. When we’re kids, our parents are almost divine: they’re all we wish to be like, they’re all we really know. But then, we realize, in a random thursday, that they had inner lives, fears, friendships, heartbreaks; versions of themselves that came before us — that we will never really know them like they know us. Sometimes motherhood overcomes the woman, not because she hides herself, but because the role consumes so much of her that it changes how she’s seen and how she sees herself. I didn’t live a day without my mom, but she lived a whole life without me. And I bet she was fun.