reviewed from my letterboxd.

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“I move forward. Because I know my pain is unexceptional so I don't feel the need to burden everybody with it!”

first movie of 2025. so many things to process and words to say but finding it hard to get them out.

great performance by both jesse and kieran and while kieran is exceptional i really believe it wouldn’t be like this without jesse, and of course, the script. even though the last part was a bit rushed it was still an amazing and organic one. i laughed so many times too. cinematography has a calm movement to it and the undercurrent felt increasingly heavy as the movie progressed. can’t wait to see more of jesse’s projects.

the characters, i really really relate to their feelings and that restaurant and rooftop scene with the saturated red light on benji’s face and david’s words made me almost ugly cry.

and i don’t even know what to start with all the pain and grief in this. all were just so hidden and out and true to a point that i wonder did jesse eisenberg read my mind. this made me rethink ‘is pain comparable’ that’s been in my mind forever. still haunted by how the movie began and ended almost the exact same — grief isn’t linear.