Memoir Of A Snail - Blog Posts

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I watched Memoir of a Snail yesterday,, i really liked it. It's a very sad and densely dramatic movie, but it's able to encapsulate a very large amount of lessons and themes.

A very notable component is the abundance of death. From the beginning of the story until the end, the dead and dying play an important part of the main character's life. Grace Pudel is a twin, but she spends most of the film extremely, extremely alone.

The climax of the film, where everything is lost, is always an important way to tell what the film is valuing and teaching. In this case, Grace has lost everyone, her parents, her brother, her partner and her best friend. Additionally, she has realised what could make her happy, after all of the tragedy, but has no way to claim the key to her cage.

Grace escapes her cluster of madness thanks to all of the people around her that have loved her. Pinky is there for her when she realises that she caused a big portion of her own misfortune. Her brother, Gilbert, becomes her indefinite companion.

Essentially, Memoir of a Snail is about the curse and cycle of loneliness, the endless downfall of not getting better because you're not okay. It's also about escaping it, and realising the importance of other people. Thirdly, it's about the sadness of being the spectator to your own life, never really living, but existing.

When we cause nothing in the world, not sadness, nor happiness, we can never truly care about anything. At our core, we are proud of what we build. If our magnum opus is a cage, breaking it down will take the most insufferable strife.