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Downer but... (spoilers)


You see, we all live life in a pattern. Wake up, go to work, come back home, eat, take a shower, sleep, repeat.

But if I go back into my childhood I remember one afternoon when I was maybe 6, playing with my toys, by myself and thoughts started to wander in my head, random thoughts, just by observing my family moving in and out doing their daily things. Something like "What are we (us, people) DOING here? Why are we living? Where was I ... before? What was there before all this?"
So the question to liking this movie isnt the execution or the directing, or the many efforts an entire team put into making it.

The kid's problem, I feel it's touching the depth of our beings that we unconsciously deny by living our life in the pattern we do.

Sure, we need to work in order to survive and we need to shower to be clean, and we need to eat, and we need to shop for food and clothes and stuff, and we need to this and that for our daily existence.

But... there is MORE to life than just accepting the premise that we were born, we do things to exist and one day we'll die. There's depth inside of us that leads back into the place we came from. There are people who are aware of it, and people who arent. Some people are SO aware and so deeply impacted by it that they see that this world and their depth dont match. So they live in pain until they dont want to live in pain anymore even if that means they don't live anymore.

Both his mom and his dad were just trying their best which is what makes them good parents, any problem related to him made them offer support to the best of their ability but neither of them were aware of this depth. even though he said multiple times that he felt he wasnt made for this world. This sentence carries a lot of depth. Their only mistake was taking him out of the hospital thinking he would be better. But even if they didnt, he could've done the same thing a year later after being released and after he had tried all the antidepressants in the world.

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