Assalamualaikum..
I just watched this movie in Netflix today. For me, it is an interesting movie. Those who admire minimalist architecture, I am sure you will fall in love with this movie. Plus, its cinematography is something that I truly adore.
The film starts with the main character, J , just finished her 3 years study in interior design from Sweden and had an aim to renovate her family's 2-storey art deco shophouse towards a minimalistic design. The house is full of her family belonging while they are grew up there. She works with her brother to clean up the house before renovation. Her brother also looking at the principle of tidying up stuff by Marie Condo along the cleaning process. In the beginning, she threw away a lot of stuff without truly looking at the value of them as for her she wants to clean up the house so that she can clear up her mind. In the process, she cleaned the house with almost an absent of emotion. A conflict started after her best friend, P, also, her partner that involved in the renovation project saw J threw away a present that she had given to P during her birthday in the past. P said she needed to throw away that present as there are a lot of stuff in her house and it requires her to get rid of it to clean her house. P is heartbroken. J asked P, what she need to do to reconcile the friendship. Then, P asked J to learn to be compassion. Then J ask for apology from P. Then, P said ...
Some things won't go away just because you pretend to forget all about it. It has to come from both sides for it to be over.
- P -Then, things started to change. P started to reassess the value of each item she wanted to throw away. Along the way, her emotion begin to show up as she learns to confront her past conflict.
This is truly a good movie to watch. Even though the issue is simple, it brings a huge message.
It is a story of how people choose to react to conflict with emotional pain.
How we treat a emotional pain is just the same as physical pain. We need to aware of the pain, find the source of the pain, find the appropriate medicine and take care of wound to allow it to heal properly.
Physical pain is easier to recognise as it is visible in our eye and plus we can feel the pain.
But how about an emotional pain? Do we take care of our emotional pain just the same as we take care of physical pain?
In dealing with physical pain, some people choose to ignore the emotion and suppress it. It is totally not recommended. The right way to deal with emotional pain is by confronting the pain and process the emotion accordingly. We shall process the emotion by our own if we are able to do it. For some people, they might need help in processing the emotional pain. So, please get help from professionals in dealing this issue. There are counsellor, psychiatrist and clinical psychologies that will be able to help the people with this conflict.
This movie encourage a person to deal with their emotional pain. Supress an emotion does not help a person to move on. We can pretend to ignore the pain, but we cannot lie with our mind. The longer a person suppress an emotional pain, the more attempt need to be done to cure it. So, it is crucial to deal with a conflict in an appropriate way.
I cannot comment either the action taken by the main character is the right way to deal with her conflict as some of the issues are not deeply elaborated.
It is truly recommended to watch this movie. Another movie that I would recommend you guys to watch is "Collateral Beauty", the main character in Will Smith.
Okay kudos !