Items in: After Viewing Film Analysis

Each of these items assumes the reader has seen a film and discusses it in-depth — and thus will have spoilers. After viewing talks aim to get at how a film’s impact might change us for the better and how its story and filmcraft contribute to the impact.

How the film enriched and changed me Hirokazu Kore-eda’s intimate observation and deliberate pacing in After Life draw me beyond its central notion (choosing a single memory from one’s life) and into a longing to be more often fully present in all the moments in my life. I want to be more fully alive and aware so I might see and feel the significance of each moment and every memory. […]

After Life: Finding Life Before Death

After Viewing Film Analysis
Seeing the film After Life, I want to be more fully present for and more deeply experience each moment. I want to be more deliberate about how I find meaning and significance, grounding it in community and camaraderie with the people around me, both momentary relationships and lasting ones.
How the film enriched and changed me I came away from Smoke Signals wanting to be more of a force for healing rather than discord in my relationships. If I can notch down my sensitivity to the wrongs others do against me, maybe I can see inside their lives enough to find greater compassion not only in spite of, but perhaps even because of, their failings. Maybe if I can […]

Smoke Signals: Journey to the Heart of Forgive­ness

After Viewing Film Analysis
Beyond its tongue-in-cheek insights into the Native American milieu,Smoke Signals' universal story and themes left me wanting to be more of a force for healing and forgiveness in my relationships. I want to see the heart and humanity of an offender and to see my own humanity in theirs.
How the film enriched and changed me I came away from Goodbye Solo wanting the capacity to love as quickly and intensely as Solo did in the film. Having experienced his immediate — and sustained — reaction to a fellow human in crisis, I want to be that ready to reach and stretch to care for another life. The moment (two minutes into the film) when Solo realizes that William has […]

Bahrani’s Goodbye Solo: Love Pursues the Stranger

After Viewing Film Analysis
Having experienced the lead character's immediate and sustained care for a fellow human in crisis, I came away from Goodbye Solo wanting to love even a stranger as quickly and intensely as Solo did.
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