This is an upbeat documentary about suicide--believe it or not--and it's really good. Mike Stutz's mother killed herself in 1979 when she was 45 and he was 12. He not only directs and produces but also talks on camera about his experience and interviews other people whose loved ones took their own lives, as well as a couple of folks who survived their own suicide attempts and a bunch of comedians. There is also animation and footage of a multi-generational dance troupe who developed a dance number on the subject.
I got to see a preview of it in early June when Amy was home and had a deadline to write a feature about it for the free weekly for which she interns. She had a password to watch it online. Both of us wrote down versions of the following while watching it: in the Day of the Dead they say you die three times--first when your heart stops, then when you're put in the ground, and third when the last person who can tell a story about you is gone from the earth. If you want to read her coverage, write me and I'll send you the link.
I suspect it might cause MPMS (motion picture motion sickness) but I'm not sure because we watched it on a laptop.
When it gets a distributor and/or gets to this neck of the woods I'll put up a fresh link to this post. If you happen upon it screening near you, definitely check it out.
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