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However, rewatching the first movie and Dominion consecutively made me appreciate the ending more deeply than I had done before. Call it an evolved perspective due to the experiences and encounters I've undergone but it felt so heartening to see how Ellie raised her kids, divorced her husband when they understood it wasn't going to work, reconnected with what was her passion and calling and that was what put her former lover and soulmate Alan on her path.

I believe we need more and more stories where women have a distinct sense of self and goals. A self that coexists alongside the relationships they form and even survives them if it comes to that. A self that doesn't get diminished when they age. Rather, it only shines further with the passage of time.

It is a misconception that if a woman distinguishes herself beyond the roles she is expected to play then she is betraying the role. It is unjust to expect her to give all of herself to being a daughter, sister, wife or mother.

Rather, what needs to be questioned is why, at all, must she choose between the role and her personhood? What and who put her in this position?