We discuss:

A children’s film for adults

Family and friendship

Grief

Non-linear time

Maximalist fiction in contrast with this minimalist film

Father/child dynamics

Mother/grandmother/daughter dynamics

The non-existence of objective time

The value of subjective time

Carlo Rovelli’s work on time from a scientific POV

Hanna Meretoja’s “The Ethics of Storytelling”

Freud’s fort-da game, and the reality of a child needing to “let go” of the parent

Inhabiting the space of the film

Objects that speak

Sharing the film with loved ones

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