Due to updates of my own bubble, I've been thinking about the intergenerational relationship from the parental side, and I found myself less furious about misparenting now. In comparison, ten years ago I was unsatisfied about Coco only because I felt emotional manipulated by Pixar's pacing to shed tears for that father-daughter relationship and I hated that feeling. This change influenced my review of this film and also sentimental value. I feel the paternity narratives almost compelling. Kinda sarcastically, before forgiving my own father, I started to forgive fictional fathers. Another way to frame the theme is redemption—a classic one in the 90s but seems a bit old-school nowadays. My literary enlightenment was Les Misérables, a story about redemption, which still stands as one of the strongest redemptive stories among my narrative exposure. But as I grow up I found myself more into stories about corruption, like Breaking Bad, Attack On Titan, and even Arcane. Both themes can create great humanitarian and existential arcs with strong character agency work. Maybe the later is more relatable for GenZ under endless anxiety attack? Back the film, it's old-school but I'd say very coherent overall. Speaking up for the marginalized veterans with great sympathy, we see the protaginist begins a therapy session under court jurisdiction. As the session proceeds and he opens up, the story begins to intercut between his present life and how he got here. The story strcuture is similar to A Man Called Ove, and the scene transactions are crafted. It's very unusual to present such long therapy session in a movie and lowkey this decision damages general audience experience. I interprete this as an attempt to immerse the true veterans in the audience with therapy, to alleviate the shame and doubt toward it. Like I said it's a very coherent piece. It's goal is to speak up for and speak to veterans. Religion/belief is another subject I've been thinking about recently, also because I had more real-life exposure to it. When Calvin shares that he begins to pray, I felt such rage. I feel, the US government, put people onto battlefields to kill, to self-demoralize, and then hornor them. Religion seems to me, (sicne I'm not from a religious society,) a part of this evil system too. It plays the similar role as its role in mob life. People kill, and people pray to mitigate the pain. But those are decisions and commands that should never have been made. I will forever support the idea that any war should be done by one-to-one wrestle between the nations' highest leaders.