Movie Review — Endorphine (2015)

Endorphine is a 2015 Canadian drama film directed by André Turpin and Starring Sophie Nélisse,Mylène Mackay,Lise Roy,Monia Chokri,Stéphane Crête,Anne-Marie Cadieux ,Guy Thauvette.

Ratri Abimanyu
2 min readJul 13, 2016

This is one of kind films that writer ever watched. It was unique, mind twisted, feeling unstable, exploring, running, confusing. The writer felt that. For the writer, The story was unpredictable. Quite confusing. Continuously enjoying the uniqueness when you are watching. The writer think you have to keep on eye with it, feeling what things will happen, it makes you keep asking when you are watching it. The writer felt something will be disturbing you like “what did it mean? What’s the next? And why did that things happen?” without the answers. The film let us to make some assumptions.

The writer have to say, this isn’t easy to understand and the writer felt that way. It was purely just her opinion. The cuttings, the framings, the scenes, they made it kind a collecting puzzle. It made you to train your memory, to collect the meaning and exactly, to answer your questions. Guessing something, it’s not important in here. Just watching and enjoy the show. We naturally collect piece by piece. It was kind a repetition the accident, you felt up and down. Time forces you to rewind and refresh your memory, and you know how does it feel? When some memories you don’t want to remember again. It hurts and haunts.

In spite of the hardly understanding scenes, the writer tried to read some opinions from others. One of those said, it was time traveller, linked each other parts. The writer agree with that’s not easily understanding. Because the film showed the complexion of her problem and for the main character, it showed us how traumatized she was. The big reason was, she didn’t help her mother when the accident was happening. She was feeling guilty because she refresehed her memory, her mother needed her help but she didn’t help. This phenomenal accident for her life affects to all her life.

Even though, the story tells how traumatized she was, we couldn’t see her emotions. She was kind a heartless one until she tried to explore her feelings, her experiences in her self . Moreover, the viewer’s forced to make it alive in their film. The viewer fill it

Interestingly, the film taught us to understand time, experience. She could feel the secondcounting more detail. She could see it by second counting. And the end, the main character of this film was professor in some university. She explained and told about the time, how can we feel the time, which one makes something better? Our perception of something or looking objectively. The complicated choice and most of us choose in an unconscious mind.

Sometimes, we are puzzling, aren’t we?

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Ratri Abimanyu

23yo, bad writes random stuff, fail better, Subculture