A film on continuing down our paths even when we have been faulted, and faulted others. We may find along this path that we didn’t know what we thought we did, or perhaps worse, who we thought we did. We mustn’t forget or ignore such revelations of life, its past peoples, and especially not its painful enigmas once they are revealed to us. Instead, we must take on these truths, harbor them inside, and use them to contextualize our futures. This is the only way, because it is the way based in verity. In life. Hamaguchi constructs Yūsuke’s path of gradual, forward movement towards acceptance in the most elegant ways (the perfect structuring of acts, the car as a place of progression, the development of the play from pre-production to performance), and perfectly captures the need for community in finding ourselves, being ourselves, and building ourselves. Note - Eiko Ishibashi’s score is crucial here, although I can’t put my finger on why yet. This is why we have multiple watches. Sway and I spoke about this film and Titane (2021) in Episode 1 of Mike and Sway. Check us out.
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