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Fran (Daisy Ridley) is the central character of "Sometimes I Think About Dying". She doesn't speak until 22 minutes in. Not one word. The first thing she says is matter-of-fact to an extreme: "I'm Fran. I like cottage cheese." There's no mystery behind why she says it. She's at an office meeting where everyone is asked to introduce themselves by sharing their favorite food. We've seen her make a meal of cottage cheese already. Everything else about her is a mystery and remains so. There's something refreshing about a film not feeling the pressure to explain. Billy Wilder once put together a list of tips for writers, one item being: "A tip from [Ernst] Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever." "Sometimes I Think About Dying," directed in an intriguing style by Rachel Lambert, operates on this principle, and is mostly successful.
Fran lives in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. She works in an office, creating spreadsheets all day, surrounded by the banal conversations of her co-workers. Fran is mostly invisible in this close-knit group. (The film really captures office jobs, even down to the excitement when someone brings in donuts for the group.) At night, she pours a glass of wine, eats cottage cheese, does Sudoku, goes to bed. Wash, rinse, repeat. But Fran has a secret: her waking life is overrun by fantasies of seeing herself dead. She is a corpse in the forest. She lies dead on an empty beach. Bugs crawl over her body. She imagines herself being hung from a crane. These fantasies are alarming and quite literally suicidal, but she takes no action towards suicide as a goal. She doesn't seem particularly depressed. The film resists explanation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkWss_wCZ6A
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sometimes-i-think-about-dying-movie-review-2024
Fran (Daisy Ridley) is the central character of "Sometimes I Think About Dying". She doesn't speak until 22 minutes in. Not one word. The first thing she says is matter-of-fact to an extreme: "I'm Fran. I like cottage cheese." There's no mystery behind why she says it. She's at an office meeting where everyone is asked to introduce themselves by sharing their favorite food. We've seen her make a meal of cottage cheese already. Everything else about her is a mystery and remains so. There's something refreshing about a film not feeling the pressure to explain. Billy Wilder once put together a list of tips for writers, one item being: "A tip from [Ernst] Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever." "Sometimes I Think About Dying," directed in an intriguing style by Rachel Lambert, operates on this principle, and is mostly successful.
Fran lives in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. She works in an office, creating spreadsheets all day, surrounded by the banal conversations of her co-workers. Fran is mostly invisible in this close-knit group. (The film really captures office jobs, even down to the excitement when someone brings in donuts for the group.) At night, she pours a glass of wine, eats cottage cheese, does Sudoku, goes to bed. Wash, rinse, repeat. But Fran has a secret: her waking life is overrun by fantasies of seeing herself dead. She is a corpse in the forest. She lies dead on an empty beach. Bugs crawl over her body. She imagines herself being hung from a crane. These fantasies are alarming and quite literally suicidal, but she takes no action towards suicide as a goal. She doesn't seem particularly depressed. The film resists explanation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkWss_wCZ6A
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sometimes-i-think-about-dying-movie-review-2024
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