Rabbit Hole

Last night we watched Rabbit Hole. Have you guys seen this movie? It’s one of those films that is so incredibly well done, yet so incredibly difficult to watch.

Aaron Eckhart and Nicole Kidman play a couple learning how to cope with the accidental death of their four-year-old son. Seriously, why do I torture myself this way? Their performances were fantastic. You could actually feel what their characters were going through.

Although it was heartbreaking to watch, this movie did an amazing job of showing some common things that people go through when they lose someone they love. Some of the scenes that portrayed dealing with the physical remnants of a life were the hardest for me – being in their son’s room, his drawings on the refrigerator, seeing his father watch movies of his son swinging and so alive, watching his mother cleaning out his room and trying to figure out what to do with his clothes, etc.

I thought the writer and director also did a great job of showing what it could be like for a mother to attempt  to deal with loss by trying to block out her child’s existence or unsuccessfully attempting to go back to the life that she had before her son was born. I also thought that the movie’s ending was handled very well.

Unsurprisingly, I didn’t feel good when this movie was over. Even though I’ve experienced some extremely painful losses in my life, I can’t imagine how someone actually makes it through the absolutely horrifying event of losing a child. I love you, Mom. 

I was extremely happy that Nathaniel happened to wake up when the movie was over and want a bottle. I just wanted to kiss his forehead, run my fingers through his soft hair, and hold him close for a while.

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