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omg this movie. i love how slow and intentional it feels. the story is given room to breathe. scenes often feel like peeking into a moment that continues after the scene ends. we follow alan’s journey via a series of significant encounters, while not neglecting to appreciate and luxuriate in the long lonely days he spends on the road. the travel montages are beautiful golden and deeply midwestern. the lynchian horror element is very present but executed subtly. i felt the story was told with skill. my favorite scenes:
the very last scene, alan and lyle reunite. the suspense built to this moment is incredible. the air is thick with emotion. few words are spoken, yet so much is exchanged between them.
the hospitable couple chat in the kitchen. love is exchanged through gesture— she leans, chin first, limited in reach by her hands, which stay in the mixing bowl. he closes the distance with a kiss. she answers a question he didn’t quite have to ask. she treats the answer like it’s obvious— of course, extend generosity.
the conversation with the pregnant woman around the campfire. you need your family. you need strangers.
thank u iyes for projecting thank u ether for hosting
Apr 10, 2025
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such a visually stunning movie and the movie itself including the mostly improvised dialogue is beautiful too!
Feb 24, 2025
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I’m always keeping my thoughts on the few films I choose to write about solely within the pages of my notes up, so I figured what the heck! Maybe someone out there might like the two cents I want to spend on talking about a film that moved me :] Spoilers, ofc!!!
 (2/2/25) Absolutely beautiful film. Watched it with katlafo, and we were both sobbing messes by the end. Throughout the beginning, I spent so much time trying to analyze the film, thinking I HAD to figure out the underlying message of a film I’d heard so much about before I’d even truly experienced it for myself. Man.
The scene where Greg shows Rachel her film was so beautiful. Again, I tried to pin point what it all meant in the moment—the constant cuts to Greg and Rachel’s pained expressions, the long shots of seemingly symbolic stop-motion—but I realized that that was exactly what was keeping me from what I longed for. So I sat there, and felt. And cried, and cried.
Later, the scene where Greg chooses to go to Rachel’s room, allowing himself to simply exist in the silence, taking in the remnants of her life, it was all so beautiful; the tears just wouldn’t stop, haha.
While I didn’t leave this film with some life changing message I was subconsciously searching for, I feel this movie reminds me to love myself the way I do others; and to do things because they matter to ME, because I care about them.
While I want to say I’ll never trust anything that tells me someone or something won’t die at the end, I know that’s not true.
Feb 3, 2025
I took a page out of justheretofillthevoid’s book and watched a movie shortly after waking up, while drinking my coffee. It was lovely and something I expect to do more often!
Something I loved about this movie is it felt real. It wasn’t a stretch of the imagination to think these characters exist, or love each other. Seems small but a lot of movies get it slightly off, so I appreciate it when it happens.
As most people have shared, yes this move is about grief, but I think they did a phenomenal job of showing generational trauma. That which isn’t dealt with, in this case because it was so atrocious and their grandma just needed to survive, is passed down until it demands to be felt.
Overall, a very human film that made me feel a lot of things💗
Jan 25, 2025
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a deep clean… move all the furniture, beat the rugs, sweep, mop, rearrange. it was needed.
Apr 15, 2025
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my favorite word right now. say it out loud, it feels like a tennis match in your mouth.
honorable mention: papal. it feels like you forgot how to pronounce the word people.
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