Megan

I had work in the afternoon, so I saw “All Of Us Strangers” first thing in the morning. Only four people appear, but it was a good movie. I felt like I couldn't bring myself back to the real world for a while after. I somehow managed to make it to the office while listening to Frankie's “The Power of Love" on my Walkman. The Japanese screenwriter who has had the greatest influence on me is Taichi Yamada. I love his original novel. I also love “The Discarnates (1988)," screenplay by Shinichi Ichikawa and directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. For someone like me with a disposition toward being alone, facing solitude and my struggle with it was “life” itself. With my parents gone and having experienced the pandemic, the lump in my life has grown. Andrew Haigh's interpretation and adaptation of loneliness in the last part of the film is even more powerful than the original! The way of the lonely soul. The way of the lost soul. I sobbed. "I'll protect you from the hooded claw. Keep the vampires from your door.”