This is a beautiful story and even more beautiful production of a middle-aged woman stuck in life... then hit by a metaphorical truck of a midlife crisis that seemed to be heating towards overboiling for the 2 decades since the protagonist's mother died an abrupt yet painfully slow death to cancer.
The scenes not only jump back to past and present but also showcase the past, inner child in present day depictions to highlight the sealed off trauma never healed before. Clare's writing, which was pushed off due to what she felt was writers block, a lack of creative flow, and being a mother is now being pushed to the surface as she faces the music with her realities of today, her adolescence, and her abusive childhood.
It highlights the true internal blocks of underlying traumas - how these can haunt you and create vicious self-destructive patterns if not faced... and most importantly, how to forgive yourself and your inner child... how to look at yourself from the third person (what we see as the audience) and understand what triggers continues to throw a wrench in your path with recycled anger (we can especially see this in the s1e8). Sometimes, you just have to look at that little person within you and cut them some slack - Clare's mindset and experience is stuck in her young experience and understood through the eyes of the young twenty-year-old-self. She is now almost 50 and is finally starting to look reflect and take a glimpse of her hardships through the eyes of a middle aged women... reflections only made with empathizing advice to her peers she so easily can guide. In a sense, Clare is getting a back door entrance to self-forgiveness with her human and mature advice towards helping others unpack their trauma and forgive themselves.
It's truly fantastic for those seeking their own redemptions.
The scenes not only jump back to past and present but also showcase the past, inner child in present day depictions to highlight the sealed off trauma never healed before. Clare's writing, which was pushed off due to what she felt was writers block, a lack of creative flow, and being a mother is now being pushed to the surface as she faces the music with her realities of today, her adolescence, and her abusive childhood.
It highlights the true internal blocks of underlying traumas - how these can haunt you and create vicious self-destructive patterns if not faced... and most importantly, how to forgive yourself and your inner child... how to look at yourself from the third person (what we see as the audience) and understand what triggers continues to throw a wrench in your path with recycled anger (we can especially see this in the s1e8). Sometimes, you just have to look at that little person within you and cut them some slack - Clare's mindset and experience is stuck in her young experience and understood through the eyes of the young twenty-year-old-self. She is now almost 50 and is finally starting to look reflect and take a glimpse of her hardships through the eyes of a middle aged women... reflections only made with empathizing advice to her peers she so easily can guide. In a sense, Clare is getting a back door entrance to self-forgiveness with her human and mature advice towards helping others unpack their trauma and forgive themselves.
It's truly fantastic for those seeking their own redemptions.