There are many things I could say about it so… Firstly I shall say that it should be watched before, after or when you are having some type of treat. I would advice popcorn, for its proximity, taken the context…
Harsh film, good acting, nice setting and common, oh so common, theme. Usually saying common theme would make you think it deals with something seen too often and thinking of Leo and Kate’s very well known film it would be misleading to say so. “Choices in life”, a common theme in each of our heads. Frustrating oneself, getting up again, confronting the decision and do our best is, on average, what we do every single day. It is on average what people my age spend mind doing hour after hour.
It is to a certain degree funny how art is supposed to move us and make us react (and offers no solution, as there is none). Kate’s character definitely makes your head spin thinking, presumably, of your own issues and decisions in life as her fight continues. As the film keeps going you feel more and more empathetic towards her, but to no good end. Her death symbolizes to me the realisation of the continuous loop of emptiness and acceptance of it by most areas of society.
Even if we live in a time of crisis, the ideals set by a few still rule the majority. I am in no position to critize myself. I simply want to say out loud, though, that even if I feel constrained to be the Dicaprio of my life at this time, I wish some day I have the courage to be the Winslet I (as everyone else) have inside.
As I learned some time ago: “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken”
