Away We Go (directed by Sam Mendes who also directed American Beauty and Revolutionary Road) is a sweet and quirky story about a couple in their mid-thirties who are expecting their first child. In the midst of this major life transition, Burt and Verona end up traveling around the country visiting friends and relatives on a quest to find “home” before their daughter is born.
This is a film about finding your place in the world. Over and over again the question driving Burt and Verona’s journey is “How will we live?” And each character they encounter on the way has a very different (sometimes strange, sometimes tragic, sometimes beautiful) answer.
From Verona’s colleague in Pheonix to LN in Madison to friends in Quebec to a brother in Miami, Burt and Verona are literally trying on different ways to live, trying to figure out what they’re doing in the world.
This is a quest I think many of us are on ourselves. There are some moments in the film that will just burn inside you they feel so real and so close to what it feels like to enter the world as an adult, as a parent, as a family…and have no idea what you’re doing. In a poignant scene in Quebec, a friend’s advice to Burt and Verona is, “you have to be so much better than you ever thought.”
This story, one about what you’re doing, where you’ll end up, and the people in life who go there with you, asks you to consider what you’re searching for, where you’re going, how you will enter the world, and what you promise on your own journey to find home.
Pay special attention to the soundtrack as you watch. The music adds depth and meaning to many important scenes throughout the film.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEp3NKG2U5U
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