I don’t know if it was intended, but I felt that the first-person sequences — particularly the opening — were a metaphor for the filmgoing audience: sitting in a theatre or on our couches, we watch on passively, trapped in our bodies as events unfold before us which we are unable to control.

As for the film itself, it felt a bit too made-for-tv-movie to me, the type of movie where each scene is built for the sole purpose of making the audience cry (whether those tears are happy or sad). By no means do I hate it for this, though. I just feel it’s average — the type of average, overly-polite movie, with all the rough edges sanded down, that tends to garner ‘universal acclaim’.