Tal Maayan

I have suffered grief twice - first my mother when i was 16 to cancer, then my brother to suicide when i was 20. This movie is the only writting/script/expression that i have come across that truly portrays grief in all its stages : denial, sorrow, anger, amd acceptance. Those who have suffered grief and know what its like to always feel misunderstood and that no one around you can relate to you - this is for you. I felt deeply understood by this movie, it was like seeing my grief painted before me. Whoever made this movie, must of gone through some deep grief. It felt like therapy, but not the kind you dont want to go back to. It gives space for you to feel but also gives hope, it doesnt leave you there - it ends with love and collateral beauty - which in my opinion are the end and meaning of it all: God is all sovereign and all good and all loving. He sent his Son Jesus into the world as God in the body of man to be with men in their pain and to go through ultimate pain for them on the cross so that his sacrificial love could save us toHim. his ways and thoughts and reason are higher than ours, and threre is collateral beauty because in the end its all glorifying him and bringing about his purpose. We do not see it now, but we will. There is collateral beauty and we will see it.