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movie review - Sweet Girl

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2021.08.28

This is a story about a man and daughter who lose their wife/mother and the father can't shake that his wife was allowed to die due to some mix of medical and pharmacological incompetence and/or conspiracy. I found myself rooting for the film, which is not that unusual if it can hold to its premises and maintain an engaging tone. Which this does. The writing's not always consistent, there are some uneven patches in the direction, but I enjoyed it.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

—John Boyd, US Air Force