Amazing - I can hardly draw a smiley face haha

Should say child size

13/13

Survival of the fittest: evolution and the Alphas taking one’s “knowledge” in the removal of a head from the body

12/13

It doesn’t really matter in the end what the mother is suffering from, to choose your death is the best death there can be. A control which she has when all else is not in her control.

11/13

The music is by Young Fathers, aptly referencing one of the main relationships in the story

10/13

- Stoic principles: acceptance of death as a natural eventual endpoint for all.

9/13

- The absence of industrial light pollution made for a very surprising starry scene as they ran back to the island which was absolutely beautiful

8/13

- Sins of the father: the boy questions his reality as his innocence sheds, the father also keeps the mother in a permanent state of oppression, the boy quite literally takes her and releases her

7/13

- The shrine of the Dead: a cycle of mortality ritualistically performed by a doctor, who normally ensures the persistence of life, the acknowledgment and remembrance for the dead, the circling fires scene that fade into a literal circle, of endless time and continuing.

6/13

- My personal favourite: The boy wraps his mother’s skull in the jumper, the son carrying the mother as she carried him once just the same at the beginning of his life and he at the end of hers

5/13

- The Mother’s dementia reflect aspects of the landscape, forgetting, falling away, becoming one with nature again, which she also joins