Our perceptions of our own life being misconstrued or viewed as something else entirely. A desperation from a person who just wants some semblance of comfort & love, always feels condescened from her girlfriend, or she seems to be always looking down at her. That final hug is a showcase of her emotionally fractured and destroyed person desperate for the comfort of another human being, the trauma of losing a child and utilizing macion as a way to feel it what it means to care for a child, which she won't be able to do. Shows that events in a person life, their mistakes, are a result of complications and context we don't see until it is in our view. A movie about seeing the inner context and realizations within certain moments of life, macion being possibly gay is an obvious example of this. A young boy broken down by his probably homophobic father, and on his path toward a military school. The way the movie opens and we see inside his life and his family's life really is so depthfully abd beautifully told. He isn't some psycho kid, he's a kid realizing his own sexuality, and realizing the inherent beauty of life itself, his father acts as if he's a crazy kid deserving of punishment. But all we see is a kid who is observational, perceptive and a genuine heartful and artful kid deep down. The hard nose edge to a father's ideas of how their boy should be. The miscarriage & the way she cares for the boy seems to be just as a way of seeing the future, until that future is shattered. She doesn't know what to do, other than desperately hold onto to that memory & idea of a boy that once existed inside of her. The final scene is perfect because it works on multiple levels in terms of emotional weight. She is in the car with the same woman that hit her (and possibly caused a future miscarriage), and she is reliving the constant ever-living idea that the baby is gone, bringing her down to her emotional low point, the hug as a desperate act for compassion. Fantastic performances, well-rounded cast with a central lead performance that is subdued but never in a pretentious way, just an emotionally broken woman brought perfectly to the forefront. The mother character is so cutthroat, but the performance helps keep her from seeming evil or devoid of emotion, just wants to protect her son. The look of the movie is fantastic, wonderfully understated, great use of focus and choosing when to not even show someone's face and hold on a wide shot. The body language of the performances combined with the shot composition works perfectly to create distinct understated moments. The writing of the characters is a great example of showing not telling, but also the in depth change that comes from several events, just a series of emotionally wrecking moments that still is filled with genuinely humane and depthful scenes featuring these ideas of perceptions and the beauty of life that goes overlooked. A script that is very simple but never in a bad way, a framework to analyze the human experience, in heartbreaking yet sometimes beautiful ways. Also love the saxophone score that is perfectly added in certain moments, simple and never used too much or too little, a perfect melancholy tune.
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