Waves

i just love it! everything about this movie keeps you on the edge of your seat. the switch up between protagonists and them being siblings gives the audience an inside perspective of family life. in this case, the life of a family with an abusive, pushy father, a submissive son that will do anything to satisfy that craving of validation he desperately wants from his dad, a quiet introverted sister that just steps behind the brother’s limelight, and a mother that seems oblivious to it all. this constant abuse pushing tyler off to the edge and the viewer getting to experience the feeling of being in that situation. what is so amazing about this film is how different the perspectives of the siblings are; while still being able to see how they shared similar emotions to what the father put the son through even though emily was not a firsthand victim of this treatment is something refreshing to see when being used to often seeing families in film being portrayed as individuals. each family member has their own conflicts to deal with, but in this film, we can see an authentic sibling dynamic of them not necessarily going through the same issue but still feeling for each other.  during the film's contrasting narrative or counterpart story, we see the sister resenting her brother for what he did while still going through conflict, like her father-daughter relationship, a newfound love interest that is sort of something refreshing in her life, giving her a sense of hope and peace in all of the events that happened so suddenly. this movie, in my opinion, effectively demonstrates how many sides to a story there are, the amount of endless emotions that humans go through, the result of negative actions/abusive parenting is something so amazing to see be executed in a modern-day film that even though it’s reaching its 10-year mark, it still feels current and relevant to events that we still see today.