Lovely


I recently watched The Quiet Roar on Mubi. It was a pleasure to experience. I'll watch it again, and I think I'd like to purchase it. The premise of the psilocybin trip with Marianne visiting her younger self could have easily gone wrong -- too sentimental, too surreal, etc. -- but the director struck the right notes. It felt faithful to life, to these characters, organic. Bittersweet, and beautiful. No unnecessary embellishments.

I felt frustrated with the younger Marianne, knowing what she was determined to create for herself, to know it came true, to see her from her older self's POV. I cared about Jörgen as well, and I felt powerfully his loss, in multiple ways, but mainly in the way a branch of life was starved and severed. Extraordinary to feel his absence even as I watched him "live" with young Marianne. The final scene of him and older Marianne was both a heartbreak and some solace -- not enough solace to make up for the loss, as it should be. I bear this truth as a viewer as I leave the story, along with the older Marianne, as she leaves the trip and comes back to reality, which will only last three more months.

The performances were nuanced, without falseness. The sound was also very well done. It was truly 50% of the story.

Thank you to all involved.


"You must not judge what I know by what I find words for." - Marilynne Robinson

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