'Nine Days': Film Review – Edson Oda's debut beautifully illustrates how lucky we are to be alive, says AskDebruge
” and pretty much every other film ever made. You see, most movies are about characters, real or imagined, and the stuff that happens to them, whereas “Nine Days” is aboutitself — as in, the moral dimension that constitutes who a person is, how he or she treats others, and the choices that define us as humans.
Will’s decision matters, since everyone responds to the joys and sorrows, setbacks and triumphs, of being alive differently. That’s a truth that extends beyond the hermetic meta-realm of “Nine Days” and into the real world which, Oda believes, so many of us take for granted. The more truths you recognize in Oda’s movie, the more profound it will be for you.
That would be Emma . For a soul who’s never stepped foot on earth, Emma sure seems grounded. She has by far the best attitude. Will initially resists her positivity, and yet, Oda treats her nine-day trial as a chance to challenge many of Will’s faulty assumptions about life. When asked to watch the TV screens and write down her thoughts, Emma fills an entire notebook with “things I like” — a thousand simple pleasures, like the epigrams collected in Joe Brainard’s “I Remember.
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