Episode 49: Manchester by the Sea

[@Karim-rl6km]

This movie affected me in many ways the brokenness of the main character and his wife who rejected all of her insecurities and trauma into him in a way to cope with all of it (a common human thing to do) and bashed his reputation where everyone thought that he was the one who intentionally did it he could not even resent her for it because he truly saw himself as being the culprit or maybe felt some guilt you could tell that he just did not care when she was apologizing to him and the pure despair that came after it, lost himself into the melancholy and sadness and fell into a meaningless habit of cleaning this hotel he was a complete shell of himself and kept living somehow is self-worth completely shattered where he does not even need furniture, a decent apartment or even love because of the guilt of what he has done unintentionally to his kids and pure trauma that stems from it, He can not even open up to anyone in any personal way until his nephew's dad die where for the first time he has no other choice than to open up there's some sort of redemption the wound of despair somewhat heals a bit and finds a reason to live through the caring of his nephew and the fact that he loves him back to might have given him a bit of hope. Is my interpretation of it all I'm French sorry for the punctuation or errors I might have made, great podcast very insightful great work!

[@remainderspod]

Hi @karim-rl6km thank you for taking a listen and giving us your insight into the film. We agree, this is one that sits with you for a long time. I think your point about caring for his nephew is so key. Lee could find more healing through his relationship with his nephew (Which I believe his brother believed and truly thought of Lee as a great father) but Lee is wounded (like you mentioned) and he spends most of the film rejecting any good / responsibility that comes his way because he believes he will destroy it.