Fuck It.

At a psychological level, the film is very much about experiencing life. And experiencing life does not just mean experience of the present conscious but also the imagined future (i.e. what could have been if certain things had occurred), what you long for, your dreams, your souvenirs and, more importantly, the acknowledgement of reality being everything else that you cannot see or experience. So, you know that I am here and the moment we hang up I will be eating with my family and you too. We wouldn’t be able to acknowledge or understand that in reality, so that level which is rarely talked about but is so obvious is there too. And that’s why the rugby is there in the [final scene of] of the film. I don’t understand why people got so confused with that. It’s the equivalent of reading the end of a children’s fairytale saying “they lived happily ever after” and the kingdom survived.

-Carlos Reygadas

“You took so many, Violet.

You died crying.

I held you.

You were safe.