Monster (2023) Film Thoughts

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!

The film was a beautiful train of emotions.

I've been wanting to watch this for a very long time, and I'm disappointed that I didn't watch it very early on.

This film tells a story, but it leaves the audience to interpret it for themselves.

I liked how this film was told in 4 perspective, but we don't know who's really telling the truth. You are given a truth, that for themselves are true, but you as an audience is to believe one.

This film also explores the themes of the struggles of the queer youth between the two, as the director confirmed. They develop feelings that adults in their world, likely Yori's father, wouldn't accept, as thus they lie. They lie to seem normal, not to be a monster.

The ending struck me very hard. It was an open ending, and it left me to think that they died and got to the other side of the tunnel (where it was blocked by the wire fences).

It was the saddest ending ever. I'm still crying as I tell you my thoughts.