i thank all the gods and goddesses for not making me watch this in theaters, cos girl bawled her eyes out real bad.<i>the first time he cracked and teared up in the entire film…  </i><blockquote>“grandma, come home with me.i’ll make you congee.”</blockquote>it felt good to <b>not</b> be emotionally manipulated into crying and feeling so much (i failed). if you start feeling superior by thinking you’d never think of such a thing, try watching it again cos that’s the very thing. crazy how jaded the characters that you would naturally expect for their development, the typical changes and see some typical family tropes that would make you feel guilty, broken—but they never came. it was so raw. it was art. it was the lives of so many real human beings right on my screen. <i>there was nothing to romanticize.</i> i was just watching life in my screen for 2 hours.