Coping With Grief

How could I have missed The Greatest when it first came out in 2009? We need to pay more attention to unnoticed movies that just came out with very little publicity and financial support. Yet, they are always par excellence!

This is a movie about dealing with grief. Losing a family member is always tough, but nothing can be worse than losing an offspring. I'm not a mother, but I can only imagine the deepest cut in the heart when your beloved child just passed away, very often, when you least expected it.

Pierce Brosnan never strikes me as a strong actor. His Bond movies and brand character are probably putting him in a box. But having discovered that he's the producer of this movie, I began to have more respect for him as a film maker. And he knew how to pick his actors - Susan Sarandon and Carey Mulligan before she became the darling of the U.S. and British film industries.

This is a very simple story of how people are coping with grief - anger, remorse, emotional suppression, self denial, plain memories. But this is also a story about life, and how we're often struck by the least expected tragedy, and yet how we always manage to survive in spite of the pain.