I just finished watching this film on Netflix. I totally got it. It is a slice of real life. Why do we do things the way that we do? Ever asked yourself that? Sometimes we can explain it and sometimes we can't. It's called life.
In this deliberately quiet independent film, a young woman decides to leave her husband. Both have successful careers, they love each other and become the idea of what life is perceived as "perfect". She becomes pregnant. They are both happy about it. One night, he wants to go out with his work colleagues. She doesn't because she is not feeling well due to her pregnancy. He insists. She goes. At the agreed time that he said that they would leave, he just keeps talking with one of the other people at the table. She gets up and goes to the bathroom. In the stall, she discovers that she is miscarrying her baby. She uses her cell phone to call him on his. His starts buzzing. He looks at it and sees that it's her. He turns his phone off. He NEVER even bothered to turn around to see that she had left the table. It never occurred to him that his pregnant wife could be in distress. Such a caring husband. She's hurt and feels abandoned by the one person that she should have been able to trust and depend on.
So starts her process of trying to figure out what she does want from life. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. We all have different chapters in our lives. There is always change, there is always seeking, there is always discovering a new layer of who you are or aren't. What you thought that you wanted and yes, maybe you did want it at the time, but maybe it didn't work for you or you just want to go onto the next thing. Some people would think that's a flighty attitude, that's fine. Some people are inert and that's fine too. As Joan Crawford said, "My life belongs to me". A well said sentiment.
If you like soul searching movies, just plain and simple, try this.