Just putting this out there as this film has hit me like a truck.
Honestly, if you're feeling even a tad fragile, think carefully before seeing it.
But if you're mentally robust, you might want to give it a miss anyway tbh.
I did know, from the trailer, that the main character lost his parents as a child.
It was the end that felt like a punch in the gut for me. I've actually just been on the phone to my ex talking about it...but I partly rang him because I suddenly got scared of what it would be like if anything happened to him. He's a lot younger so fingers crossed it won't!
There's definitely such a thing as too much sadness. I felt that Harry's death was just too much.
However, from what I can see online, I seem to have taken the film more literally than I should?
Three main theories I can find are
- Harry was a figment of his imagination, or at least, the relationship was.
- Harry was dead already and went looking for company because his death made him lonely
- They're all ghosts
I took it literally as in
Very lonely man finds love
Takes Harry to see his old family home
Harry is already fragile and drinks to numb the pain of what he has just seen and can't really cope with his new boyfriend's state of mind
I realised at the end that Harry saw the ghosts of Adam's parents in the house, so perhaps that was a sign he was meant to cross over to the other side.
Of course, Adam sees that no one lives in his building, I thought it puts us in the realm of, he's in a state of mind where he doesn't see people.
But it adds to the possibility that they are all ghosts.