i remember watching this for the first time in New York, alone in my dorm during one of the loneliest stints in my life. as I lay there eating my Postmates dinner, the numbness that I had constructed to avoid the sharper edges of my mind were completely blown apart by this film. 

i cried like a child at the end and felt the closest thing to catharsis I can remember feeling after a movie. 

for the weeks afterward, i…