About him & her (2023): A movie review…

    Think about all the little elements of fate that lead to us crossing each-other lifepaths, some of them leaving everlasting marks, others just ending up as ghostly shadows of destiny. The movie, “About him&her”, explores this theme, as two phone line cross accidentally, and the people in both sides of them end up forming a special connection.   Hiding from Tokyo’s summer heat and humidity, I put the movie on, not really intending to watch it closely, but rather as a distraction as I was sorting things out a little bit, but it grasped my attention, not to let me go, till the last screen, when I felt tears rolling down my cheeks. SPOILER ALERT.   The movie is set in 1989 and the opening screen shows a black screen and visualized telephone lines getting...

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