Film review
I randomly picked the film to see given that I wanted to stop my mind from thinking and it had 4 stars review on Amazon prime. However, I found it deep, and it made me cry in the end.
Invisible?! I once wanted to be invisible so that I peacefully live in the world and be free. But as you see the film you realise that visibility is sometimes synonymous with being alive. Our reality could be distorted if we are not seen, which makes it kind of scary, as does it mean that our reality could be manipulated by others on the way they see us? Anyway, that was not what the film is exactly about.
It starts with a middle child (I thought it was a clever choice from psychological point of view) attached to her mother and to herself she is not being acknowledged by anyone else. As her mother dies, she becomes invisible to her father, her two siblings and everyone else and she goes to live a lonely but not very sad life, taking advantage of her invisibility to earn a living. However, visibility matters to her most after she meets the only guy who can see her. Someone who is himself lost and needs rescue to put his life back in track. The story unfolds and she becomes visible only when she becomes present for the sake of another person and not for herself. You better see the film for yourself but there are things that could be learnt from it:
- Before you ask to be seen, see others.
- Your story of things is not necessarily the story as everyone else sees it. The truth is something in-between.
- We long to be loved as who we are, and we are only happy when we can be who we are.
- Everyone struggles in their own world, but the struggle could be less painful if we support each other.
- Family is everything.
- Love makes as visible and alive. Everybody knows this anyway!
Give it a try!
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