Almost the perfect film? Have you spent your life wondering who you'd be if only your parents truly loved and understood you?
Here's your life-long solution; a study of a family in retrograde replete with early unexpected loss, identity crisis, social fear and loathing, and love, sweet love.
Adam's parents die when he is young, long before they could have 'known' him and longer before they would have known he is gay. These unaddressed deficiencies plague Adam's writing career and one day while conducting research, encounters the spirits of his long gone mum and dad. A long and slow moving conversation ensues (a gift from Claire Foy) revealing that with understanding and compassion, Adam's identity was in fact not a cause of concern for his parents, and that in fact what parents want most for their offspring is that they know they are loved a valued no matter what...heck wasn't it 'the kid' (in each and all of us) that made them 'parents' and the entire identify intertwined with that role? A gift. And the gift in return is love and adoration and a clear insistence from the film makers that no soul wants to leave this 'world' with an offspring hobbled by parental-imposed self-doubt.
Way leads to way and the film wraps pretty quickly around a fledgling relationship between Adam and another but so so very sadly only to find that we are watching scenes of Adam's post-life experiences.
Love your kids while can!
Here's your life-long solution; a study of a family in retrograde replete with early unexpected loss, identity crisis, social fear and loathing, and love, sweet love.
Adam's parents die when he is young, long before they could have 'known' him and longer before they would have known he is gay. These unaddressed deficiencies plague Adam's writing career and one day while conducting research, encounters the spirits of his long gone mum and dad. A long and slow moving conversation ensues (a gift from Claire Foy) revealing that with understanding and compassion, Adam's identity was in fact not a cause of concern for his parents, and that in fact what parents want most for their offspring is that they know they are loved a valued no matter what...heck wasn't it 'the kid' (in each and all of us) that made them 'parents' and the entire identify intertwined with that role? A gift. And the gift in return is love and adoration and a clear insistence from the film makers that no soul wants to leave this 'world' with an offspring hobbled by parental-imposed self-doubt.
Way leads to way and the film wraps pretty quickly around a fledgling relationship between Adam and another but so so very sadly only to find that we are watching scenes of Adam's post-life experiences.
Love your kids while can!
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