This is the only film that makes me cry every single time I watch it, without fail. I never quite understood the response. How does a wailing newborn in the middle of a paralyzed warzone push me to tears? It's always been this nameless emotion that I can't say I've experienced elsewhere. Sounds melodramatic, but hear me out.
I was reading Jonathan Haidt's book, The Happiness Hypothesis, when I first discovered the name of this emotion: elevation. Haidt included a…
When the trend of life is things growing apart, growing up alongside another soul is special. At your side is a person who is never absent, who knows you unlike anyone else, and who you share meals, nights, thoughts, and everything else in-between with. They reduce loneliness into an abstract concept and keep it hidden beneath their warmth.
Once they leave, you realize, in the same way there are no moments before your birth, there are no moments when you…
Yeah, sure, it's a perfect movie, but it's also the favorite movie of the girl who eternally broke my heart.
