I keep going through experiences that prove that love isn’t enough but this movie says it is. It says to trust enough to risk your life, not knowing if you’ll be breathing the next second. Maybe it would have taken force for you to make the right decision but I’m not strong enough to put you under. Sometimes it’s enough to just know that you’re alive. To hear your name in a film. Shed tears that will never fully leave me.
Sophy Romvari talked about filmmaking as a way to sustain and verify memory. Matt Johnson mentioned how powerful it was to have a totem in her brother’s maps — which were actually his own. She talked about how after her family watched the film, they discussed the technical elements more than the story. And her brother worried it would replace his own memories. She said, film is a spiritual truth much of the time, rather than a literal one.
a white woman sitting in front of me was actively googling who tyler perry was during the credits
Made me miss my dad and think about how he would video tape every vacation growing up and how we have multiple copies of VHS’s at home. About how kids act so much more animated on camera. About how lucky we are to be able to capture something so fleeting. How joyful moments can be recalled with such melancholy. How nausea inducing nostalgia is sometimes. How illness passes on to our children and we see the signs but we still can’t…
