You are watching someone you love become someone you don't recognize, and the people in your life keep saying things like that must be hard, and then changing the subject because there isn't really a protocol for this specific thing. A therapist would be useful. You know that. But the grief of this doesn't feel like grief exactly, it feels more like a slow confusion that you can't organize into a problem someone can solve, and so you haven't gone. These films will not solve it. But they know it, this confusion, the thing that doesn't fit the standard loss categories, and they have been sitting with it longer than you have.
A boy, bruised by life, finds his salvation through the love of his dogs.
It will not give you the tools your therapist would. It will get closer to the real question than the loop in your head has managed so far.
Gets close enough
As Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.
The film says something true at the right distance. Not advice, not instruction, just recognition of the specific thing you have been carrying.
Holds the question
Born free in the American West, Black Beauty is a horse rounded up and brought to Birtwick Stables, where she meets spirited teenager Jo Green. The two forge a bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges and adventures.
It holds the question without trying to answer it. That is enough for right now.
Better than nothing
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Closer than you expected. Not a replacement for the conversation, but the nearest available thing, and better than nothing.
Closer than expected
None of these are a substitute for the conversation you are avoiding. They are just the nearest available thing.
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
It will not give you the tools your therapist would. It will get closer to the real question than the loop in your head has managed so far.
Gets close enough
A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.
The film says something true at the right distance. Not advice, not instruction, just recognition of the specific thing you have been carrying.
Holds the question
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.
It holds the question without trying to answer it. That is enough for right now.
Better than nothing
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
Closer than you expected. Not a replacement for the conversation, but the nearest available thing, and better than nothing.
Closer than expected
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
It will not give you the tools your therapist would. It will get closer to the real question than the loop in your head has managed so far.
Gets close enough
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.
The film says something true at the right distance. Not advice, not instruction, just recognition of the specific thing you have been carrying.
Holds the question
A young girl had her voice magically taken away so that she would never hurt people with it, but her outlook changes when she encounters music and friendship. Will Naruse be able to convey the anthem of her heart?
It holds the question without trying to answer it. That is enough for right now.
Better than nothing
With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
Closer than you expected. Not a replacement for the conversation, but the nearest available thing, and better than nothing.
Closer than expected
Not the session you need. The nearest available thing.