Monday, March 3, 2008

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

a quiet film set in a small canadian town that examines the fallout from grief and loss with astounding clarity. a schoolbus accident that results in the deaths of most of the children in the small town is tied in with the personal vendetta of a lawyer carrying the baggage of a broken family. how to resolve a tragedy? the characters of the film - the bus-driver who survives only to be tormented by guilt, parents, siblings who have lost their young ones and also their futures, all struggle with varying ways of dealing with their loss only to despair at its pervadence.

low-level pain, man.

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