As you all know, suicide has played and always will play a crucial role in my life, may that be through past successes or future attempts. A huge theme of the movie was revolved around suicide, which made it slightly difficult to sit through, but not once did I feel the urge to turn off my computer or find something else to watch. The movie didn't handle the subject with kid gloves, but it also wasn't used as a tool to turn it into a tear jerker. It somehow managed to take a serious subject and make it a little less crushing without taking away from it or being disrespectful.
A lot of movies/books that I have seen/read on the subject of suicide have all done so wonderfully, so no, this isn't an original concept, this isn't a new spin on an old tale, but never the less something about it was definitely refreshing in ways that only one other story has been for me (Far From You by Courtney Summers, a YA novel about a young girl dealing with her father's suicide).
The self-destructive paths that the two main characters were idly wandering down was, as morbid as it sounds, entertaining. Their desire to sweep their issues under the metaphorical and overused rug was something that I feel if not all, then many people could relate to. Yet, through a ten-year gap, through the carnage and destroyed lives, they have managed not to necessarily save each other, but to give each other a little more time on the clock to learn to save themselves, and really, isn't that all that any of us really want?
- Peace Out Girl Scouts, Goodnight Cowboys, and To All of You in Between, Rest Well.
