Krisha (2015)
October 18, 2020 3:00 PM - Subscribe
When Krisha returns to her estranged family for Thanksgiving dinner, past demons threaten to ruin the festivities.
Really liked this movie. Some of the details I found most affecting or resonant:
-The low frustration tolerance Krisha shows from the very first scenes when she steps in a puddle. Long time substance dependence seems to really stunt the development of tolerating negative experiences and this felt very real.
- The portrayal of the overstimulating environment in the crowded house: how Krisha experienced all the sounds and people as this wall of overwhelming input.
- The ambiguity about her son's character - I forget his name but he's the director too right? I got the feeling of him as having some unhealthy substance use himself - his stash of vodka and Ritilin or whatever in his room - and how he'd keep getting up and slipping out of the room. His squirming attempts to tolerate her presence were just so real too.
I didn't experience the family as awful, just, normal. Like a family with challenges and strengths like any other. But I was impressed by how the movie showed enormous empathy for Krisha while still showing her as causing harm to those around her.
posted by latkes at 10:11 AM on October 19, 2020
-The low frustration tolerance Krisha shows from the very first scenes when she steps in a puddle. Long time substance dependence seems to really stunt the development of tolerating negative experiences and this felt very real.
- The portrayal of the overstimulating environment in the crowded house: how Krisha experienced all the sounds and people as this wall of overwhelming input.
- The ambiguity about her son's character - I forget his name but he's the director too right? I got the feeling of him as having some unhealthy substance use himself - his stash of vodka and Ritilin or whatever in his room - and how he'd keep getting up and slipping out of the room. His squirming attempts to tolerate her presence were just so real too.
I didn't experience the family as awful, just, normal. Like a family with challenges and strengths like any other. But I was impressed by how the movie showed enormous empathy for Krisha while still showing her as causing harm to those around her.
posted by latkes at 10:11 AM on October 19, 2020
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