"There is no greater love than giving your life for your friends."

What would it mean to live and to die for your friends?

This is a question seldom explored by survival or apocalyptic stories produced in the United States. In watching Society of the Snow, it is not lost on me how far from reality an American’s perception of what it takes to survive is from what really happened to the Uruguay rugby team in 1973. Grounded in firm…

“It's true that if you leave you lose things, but you also gain things, too.” -Nora’s mom

 This line at the start of the film is both the central question the story grapples with, along with its answer at the very end. In all the obvious ways, this is a story about love between people, and the small threads we never pursue just out of sheer luck or fate. But more than an interracial love triangle, Past Lives is a…