• Past Lives: Nostalgia for what could have been | Movie Review

  • Sep 12 2023
  • Length: 9 mins
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  • How important is an unlived life? The life that we could have lived but chose or happened not to. How much does the longing, wonder, or even grief about such parallel lives affect our real lives? Is an unlived life even worth examining?

    In his book “Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life” psychoanalyst Adam Phillips tries to answer all these questions. He states that “our unlived lives—the lives we live in fantasy, the wished-for lives—are often more important to us than our so-called lived lives.”

    Celine Song, the director of the film Past Lives, raises similar questions, only in the context of immigration and subtle emotions: the complex feeling of belonging or not belonging to the country you were raised in, the nuanced experience of being loved in different cultures, and the importance of our native language.
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