You have grown and the person you love hasn't grown with you, or hasn't grown in the same direction, and you have been trying to build a framework for how this doesn't make you the villain. You read about relationships and change. You find the theory that says this is normal, natural, something that happens to everyone, and you are right, it is, and the theory fits and still doesn't make the space between you any smaller. These films don't have a theory. They just show people in exactly this room, on exactly this side of exactly this distance, and let you sit with them in it.
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
It gives your mind something real to work with. The feeling is present but arrives through craft and precision, which is the angle you need right now.
Something to think with
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Complex enough to keep your analytical side engaged. The emotion lands anyway, just from a direction you weren't watching.
Earns its feeling
Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant.
It earns its weight through structure. Your brain gets the workout it came for, and something true gets through underneath.
Mind first, then heart
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his acc
Smart enough to meet you where you are. The grief is inside the architecture of it, not on the surface where you would have to deal with it directly.
Precision over sentiment
These films work not because they explain the feeling but because they earn your trust before they go near it.
As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.
It gives your mind something real to work with. The feeling is present but arrives through craft and precision, which is the angle you need right now.
Something to think with
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried
Complex enough to keep your analytical side engaged. The emotion lands anyway, just from a direction you weren't watching.
Earns its feeling
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
It earns its weight through structure. Your brain gets the workout it came for, and something true gets through underneath.
Mind first, then heart
An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible--forgiveness and love.
Smart enough to meet you where you are. The grief is inside the architecture of it, not on the surface where you would have to deal with it directly.
Precision over sentiment
A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.
It gives your mind something real to work with. The feeling is present but arrives through craft and precision, which is the angle you need right now.
Something to think with
The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.
Complex enough to keep your analytical side engaged. The emotion lands anyway, just from a direction you weren't watching.
Earns its feeling
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Moto
It earns its weight through structure. Your brain gets the workout it came for, and something true gets through underneath.
Mind first, then heart
Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.
Smart enough to meet you where you are. The grief is inside the architecture of it, not on the surface where you would have to deal with it directly.
Precision over sentiment
The right film gives your mind somewhere to go. These do.