Manchester by the Sea (2016)
This is one of those movies which brings you into the household of a middle-class family and leads you through the trials and tribulations as experienced by them. It is told in flashbacks, which are inserted as the movie goes along, but not in a confusing way.
It is an emotionally charged film, but not in an 'in-your-face' fashion but many of the emotions are left to imaginations. Many of the intended feelings are left unspoken and quite rightly so. As the story progresses, you realise that things that happen in life are beyond our control and even people's response to a crisis is unpredictable.
Lee, a janitor, who carries a great sorrow over his shoulders, after losing all his three children in a fire caused by his negligence, leads a quiet life in Boston. He has to return to Manchester when he receives news that his brother had died of a heart attack. He has to sort out his brother's final arrangements, his high-schooling nephew's living plans and to face the demons that he left after his children's accident as well as his ex-wife.
The previously jolly Lee is now a changed man after his clash with depression. He struggles to rekindle the good relationship with his nephew and to even build new ones.
It is a touching movie which shows the simple niceties in life as well as its awkward moments. Life is truly unpredictable but interesting at the same time. We would not appreciate the good times if not for the bad and vice verse. How would we understand eudaemonia without experiencing pain?
This is one of those movies which brings you into the household of a middle-class family and leads you through the trials and tribulations as experienced by them. It is told in flashbacks, which are inserted as the movie goes along, but not in a confusing way.It is an emotionally charged film, but not in an 'in-your-face' fashion but many of the emotions are left to imaginations. Many of the intended feelings are left unspoken and quite rightly so. As the story progresses, you realise that things that happen in life are beyond our control and even people's response to a crisis is unpredictable.
Lee, a janitor, who carries a great sorrow over his shoulders, after losing all his three children in a fire caused by his negligence, leads a quiet life in Boston. He has to return to Manchester when he receives news that his brother had died of a heart attack. He has to sort out his brother's final arrangements, his high-schooling nephew's living plans and to face the demons that he left after his children's accident as well as his ex-wife.
The previously jolly Lee is now a changed man after his clash with depression. He struggles to rekindle the good relationship with his nephew and to even build new ones.
It is a touching movie which shows the simple niceties in life as well as its awkward moments. Life is truly unpredictable but interesting at the same time. We would not appreciate the good times if not for the bad and vice verse. How would we understand eudaemonia without experiencing pain?
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