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Despite its hilarious moments and overt goofiness, this movie has a mournful quality to it. It prompts lamentation of the limitedness of one’s self — the lives you’ll never live, the decisions you’ll never have made, the moments that live above, below, or beside your singular trajectory. But this mournfulness isn’t evocative of despair or regret, but rather acceptance. Because even as every possible reality unfolds on screen, each viewer’s attention is most called to the joys, difficulties, relationships, and ridiculousnesses of their own unique journey through life — and is invited to celebrate it all.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I once took a flight between ports
And watched Banshees to make it feel short
I embarked feeling swell
By the time Jenny fell
I found I was all out of sorts