SJ Corber

This should have won an Oscar in my view including for the actors. It was imaginative, funny, deeply moving at an emotional level. Anyone who has lost a loved one can understand the excruciating pain and guilt and other emotions that arise from that loss. I love the creative imaginative use of the thespian world that coworkers in a creative field used to wake someone out of deep depression to confront the meaning of life and to not forget there are joys and beauty as well as loss. The "why" about life is answered by the character Knightly plays: love. It's what makes life worth living. Through the interplay of Love, Time, and Death, the protagonist is able to recognize his pain, the inability to accept loss used as a shield against that pain, to be able to move on. I did not see the denouement coming, very surprising and heartwarming, and there's joy left with the audience at the end.