It’s quite precious. The shot of the boy using the skinny tree as privacy while he pees is wonderful.
This movie offers good grief instructions. Amazing how it doesn’t romanticize trauma, just presents it bluntly and matter-of-factly. Part of me wanted the characters/real people to have a moment to break down like I sit down in the shower all dramatically sometimes after something horrible, or for the main guy to lay down a really sentimental “I’m so sorry for your loss” but this movie expresses how useless that is — how they felt didn’t get in the way of their more pressing need to survive, which is to keep moving on. Sometimes I want to feel something in its entirety all at once and get it over with, but there isn’t a button for that, and even if there was it would take me away from what’s more important.
It’s quite precious. The shot of the boy using the skinny tree as privacy while he pees is wonderful.
This movie offers good grief instructions. Amazing how it doesn’t romanticize trauma, just presents it bluntly and matter-of-factly. Part of me wanted the characters/real people to have a moment to break down like I sit down in the shower all dramatically sometimes after something horrible, or for the main guy to lay down a really sentimental “I’m so sorry for your loss” but this movie expresses how useless that is — how they felt didn’t get in the way of their more pressing need to survive, which is to keep moving on. Sometimes I want to feel something in its entirety all at once and get it over with, but there isn’t a button for that, and even if there was it would take me away from what’s more important.
