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DIRECTOR'S CUT: Therapist Reacts to ONWARD (Patreon)

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2022-09-21 03:58:00
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2023-01
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Ian Lightfoot (Tom Holland) is hoping the father he's never met can help him figure out who he is. His brother Barley (Chris Pratt) is still processing the grief of losing their father. Together, they learn to move ONWARD - finding closure and appreciation for the relationship they have with each other.

Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright talk about father figures and how grief and loss affect families, and revel in the general awesomeness of another Pixar masterpiece.

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Anonymous

There is nothing wrong with being happy for someone else, when they get/have what we don't - Romans 12:15 - Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Amy Petty

It's disappointing to realize a lot of people thought Onward somehow had a bad ending. I think people forget that the only real way to approach a movie like this is to set aside your preferences to focus on the story that the filmmakers are trying to tell. I would have loved an ending where both boys got to spend time with their father, but if you take that wish to its logical conclusion you might as well be angry that the movie didn't give them their full 24 hours with him that they wanted in the first place. I think one of the unspoken realities the movie touches on is the concept of not missing what you never had. Barley feels the *loss* of their father in a way that Ian never will, because he had just enough experience OF his father to actually FEEL the loss. Put more simply, it's the difference between loss and *lack*. That's not to say that children who grow up never having met their fathers don't feel a kind of loss - but it's a fundamentally different kind of pain. The point here was that Ian had the longing to meet his father, but Barley's the one who NEEDED him. As y'all point out, Ian did grow up with a father-figure who provided the things a father is supposed to. Barley's the one who truly missed out. That's the beauty of Ian's realization at the end, and his act of selflessness in letting Barley have that gift of a precious few minutes, which, it has to be said, would not have been the same experience if Barley had had to share it with Ian.