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Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.
Sometimes I Think About Dying
2023 Directed by Rachel Lambert
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Daisy Ridley Dori A. Rath Alex Saks Steven Weisman Kyle Eaton Brett Beveridge Lauren Beveridge Mariela Villa
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A movie about depression, dull offices, and dreading small talk so much that you’d rather die. Really smartly depicts introversion as the struggle to participate, rather than an unwillingness. It’s full of evocative imagery that speaks more clearly and effectively than words tend to on this subject. Her sadness serves to underscore the comedic mundanity around her and the characters feel true. Really effective, felt it deeply, the feature is an improvement to as well an expansion on the short.
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Daisy Ridley gives a quietly captivating performance who’s introversion has manifested into depression. But a new co-worker at her office awakens her longing for human connection and reveals an affecting and touching story, even if it takes a bit long to get there. The first half has a sluggish plodding pace emphasizing the mundanity of office life. Daisy barely speaks a single word of dialogue. She slinks away from attention and interaction, slumps down in her chair. For this reason, the film can be a challenging watch. But it is fairly rewarding. Even the most extreme introverts have that yearning for human connection. We all do, even if it’s painful or uncomfortable to outwardly express that.
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Sundance 2023 RankedDegrees of Kevin Bacon: 1
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was getting scared as all the similarities between myself & fran stacked up (down to using the same toothbrush), until she said she loves her job… phew! feels like a fluorescent hum. great performances & i especially adore marcia debonis so much. i rewatch her episode on the other two every few months and she taps into that same, lovingly desperate energy here.
isolation and uncertainty inhabit us all in such foreign ways. maybe it’s why we don’t immediately see it in each other, and why we hope for forgiveness once its form is revealed.
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Kinda excited to be a positive outlier for this one. I was renting this regardless of buzz but I’d heard good but also cautiously lukewarm. I’m so happy to disagree. I loved this! The tone is so sweet while always maintaining this dark undercurrent. Daisy Ridley is magnificent here in what’s definitely her best role. There’s something so pure about how some kindness can pull you out of being crushed under the weight of your past, how you see yourself and day to day mundanity. Maybe I’ll have more to say on a rewatch but just wow
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Sometimes I Think About Dying is a very typical US indie movie in a lot of ways. It's simple and small, focusing on its characters over spectacle. The lead is quiet and socially isolated, navigating the world without knowing quite how to relate to others. She keeps her feelings and thoughts private. For many, myself included, there's something very relatable here. The film also captures the boredom of office work and the repetition of life. It manages to feel very real. At times it cut to surreal images, often visions of death, but these moments don't take away from the understated believability of the movie. Sometimes I Think About Dying is nothing particularly new or profound, but I did find…
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“I don’t know you.”
Hit a nerve I don’t like to look at within myself for too long. Nails these really specific spaces of loneliness and depression and honestly also autism in a way that is so striking. Quiet, stubbornly restrained, makes you wait with baited breath. The jolt of surprise that comes from being noticed after feeling so impossibly isolated from everyone around you for so long. That alarm of “do they see me?” and then the desperate uneasy feeling that you must keep yourself shrouded or else they won’t like what they see. Wanting the company but not knowing what to do with it, each comment or action somehow the wrong one by society’s impossible-to-decipher rules.
Beautiful visuals, both in the hyper-realism of office spaces and small town aesthetics and the more surrealist moments we spend inside Fran’s head. The blurring of lines between those two things.
“Slow” by many’s standards but just my speed.
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SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING will hurt in its relatability for those depressed, lonely & drained by mundanity. Ridley delivers an impactful turn as Fran, a character you fall in love with as she slowly comes out of her shell. Very sweet with laugh-out-loud moments.
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Sometimes I Think About Dying occasionally feels like a short film stretched to feature length (it is), but Daisy Ridley turns in a remarkably restrained performance that succeeds on subtleties and has immensely charming chemistry with Dave Merheje (even though Marcia DeBonis might steal the movie with a single scene near the end). Sublime classical score, too.
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Sometimes I Think About Dying is PHENOMENAL… I LOVED IT.
A subtle, perfect, quiet look at social anxiety, Depression, & Panic Attacks. A real feeling movie that captures the mundane of working in an office to living life. Daisy Ridley is incredible & the final shot is beautiful#SUNDANCE2023
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