It Just Takes Time
A film about grief that takes advantage of its lack of a multimillion-dollar budget to do something rare: portray an unremarkable loss.
This is the story of an "ordinary" grief-harsh and sorrowful, as all grief inevitably is-but also something that simply happens. Loss happens, and then it happens again, and then more and more often... until, eventually, it happens less.
And here, the focus isn't on an extraordinary loss but on unremarkable people experiencing it. Dull, uninspiring, everyday people-who, paradoxically (or maybe because of this), become the film's greatest strength.
Especially Joel's character-the one who shaves his head while listening to a compilation of "inspirational" quotes. The kind of thing that, the more you think about it, shifts from funny to slightly tragic.
And then there's the wannabe YouTuber churning out the most generic "how to get a million followers" advice imaginable, spouting clichés like his own version of an inspirational quote reel... except no one watches his videos. Because they're not interesting. And that's the point.
When we watch grief in films, it's usually the grief of extraordinary people-or, at the very least, people with extraordinary reactions.
This is the grief of your next-door neighbor.
And not even the most interesting neighbor.
Which is precisely what makes it remarkable-the fact that someone decided to make a film about it.
