Saw MANCHESTER BY THE SEA - an excellent performance by Casey Affleck - a "hollow" man who can barely breathe through a tragic upending of his life; working as a janitor in order to mechanically function and get through each painful memory-filled day.
Concentrating on fixing and healing inanimate objects such as leaking pipes, clearing a path in the snow, restoring energy to electrical malfunctions - adjusting and mending the "outside" world, helps him survive.
This movie is the opposite of a Hollywood-easy answers-magic formulaic solution to the blows that life can slam you with. Worth seeing if you can tolerate the sadness.
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