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Your hands are cold.

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the thing about aftersun to me is that the sadness inherent to the movie is not just that calum inevitably kills himself - it’s that this is their happiest time together and it’s still so flawed and banal and gently wrong. the beds aren’t right. calum doesn’t get up to sing with sophie. she’s is on the cusp of growing up and he’s so wounded he can barely stand. and both these things are unutterable. so they don’t talk about it. and what makes me cry is that calum is drowning in this movie but you can see him try and try and try to bridge that gap between them and when he can’t, it’s sophie that is trying. and the fact that this unsure stage of togetherness between a father and a kid is all they ever got to share is what gets me