re: Train Dreams (2025)-Netflix with Joel Edgerton

Watched this movie last night and it definitely hit in the feels, but it didn't leave me sad or depressed. I thought the ending was poetic and beautiful and the whole movie is a great meditation on life. I took the message to mean that just being a part of this world no matter how brief our existence really is, is a blessing in itself.

As for the hurt girl in the woods, I think it was his imagination brought on by a combination of his profound heartbreak and desperation, mixed with the extreme isolation. The saddest part for me was him entering the world at the end and realizing how much of it had passed him by. It makes me wonder if that is what his wife and daughter would have wanted for him. But it was his life to live, and I didn't get the sense at the end that he had any regrets.