This is not an easy film to watch, the subject matter is something everybody tries to avoid talking about. That’s caring for old people.
Jon and Wendy are very close with their father, but now that he’s sick they have to take care of him. They go through the long process of first flying to see him, then findig a place for him and finally taking him there.
I really liked the way the father is portrayed. He’s not the typical senile who cannot keep a conversation. He is lucid enough to berate his children for asking him what to do with him after he’s dead (“What are you, a bunch of idiots!? You bury me!”).
But the focus of this story is the siblings. Their relationship felt very real to me. They are not very close, so they don’t talk to each other about their personal life, but they do care about each other as siblings. Their relationship comes out stronger at the end of this story, but it’s not like they’re suddenly best friends either.
The plot felt a little bit too neat, in one season everything seems to be resolved and they come out changed for the better. This is not a happy movie, it might even be drepressing at times. But I think it’s worth watching.
Rating: 3 Stars