Leave No Trace

Not much can be said about this movie because of its simplicity, but that in and of itself is powerful. Something about the whole long burn experience feels so viscerally intimate and sincere. It’s just life and I think that the choice for pretty much no music throughout added to that feeling of purity. Thomasin McKenzie was spectacular and every scene she was in was just so gripping.  If anything deeper can be gleamed from this film (which it doesn’t really need to be) is that the parallel of accepting or resisting change is very clear but also something very meaningful to life because of how often life can throw curveballs and change. This movie highlights the simple happinesses of life and what to do when faced with challenge even within onself. But maybe that’s just me wanting to read into it too much. I forgot this was a female directed film on the second time seeing it, that’s awesome! The most heart-warming sequence for me was the campground folk music moments. “We can still think our own thoughts.”