(This review may contain some spoilers, but it won’t spoil the experience of watching the movie.)
I recently watched the movie Sore: A Wife from the Future. I heard a lot of hype around the movie, so I decided to watch it. It is a kind of unique experience, where I have a warm feeling about the wholesome romance going on, while also containing some of the core ideas about life. It reflects on acceptance, forgiveness, moving on, trauma and how changes should come from within.
One Liner
The story follows Sore, a young woman who travels through time and wakes up in the bed of her husband(Jonathan) in the future. In the future, he has a heart attack and dies, due to his current unhealthy lifestyle. Sore tries to make his life better. Meanwhile, Jonathan doesn’t know or understand who this woman is and can’t believe her story. The story follows the awkward, wholesome relationship between these two. The story also follows a time loop — whenever Sore tries to explain the reason for her arrival, she resets the loop.
Acceptance
Do you know why dusk is so easy to love? Sometimes it’s red, blushing happily Sometimes it’s black, dark and somber But the sky, Always accepts dusk as what it is.
One of the core concepts of this movie is about Acceptance. This show beautifully explores the idea of how sometimes just letting things be as they are is the best thing to do.
The most powerful and interesting moment in the movie is when Sore came to the understanding, that she can’t change the lifestyle of Jonathan, by making him do what she wants. It is simply a form of control mechanism, any form of rules without a strong reason to follow, will always be broken.
There are no such things as parallel lives. Parallel worlds are just manifestations of human arrogance. How arrogant are we when we think, we can conquer time. Do you think by
time travellingand making different choices, the parallel life will exists?. We know nothing about time.
Forgiveness
Acceptance and Forgiveness goes hand in hand with each other. The reason for Jonathan’s unhealthy lifestyle is of his childhood trauma of his father leaving his family behind for his own pleasure. Jonathan can neither forgive or forget his father’s actions. The unhealthy lifestyle is just a coping mechanism for him to deal with it. As the series progresses, at some point he just acknowledges his emotions and decides to move on. This becomes the trigger for his change, which will prevent him from moving towards the catastrophic habits, making him the person Sore wants him to be.
You don’t choose yourself, either. You are so miserable. For years, you choose to imprison your dad in his mistakes.
How and Why People Change
This show explores one of the most impactful concepts of change, and how humans interact with it. In a way, this show is all about how Sore tries to change Jonathan, and how she fails and comes to the understanding that a person can be changed one and only if the change comes from them.
It is especially important in the world where there is a constant sense of motivation everywhere. But it can only be a potential trigger, it can’t change you. It’s just an influence, not the solution.
Of course, people can change. But the change should come from within. Some people have trouble making peace with their pain and trauma, but they can change.
And the ending quote of Jonathan
I don’t think people will change out of fear, But they feel loved.
Conclusion
Sore: A wife from the Future is a cozy wholesome romantic story, with some amazing soundtracks, a beautifully crafted wholesome ending (which reminds me of Your Name (Kimi no Na wa)), and some thoughtful ideas to think about and understand it.
Is our marriage a happy one? You are so nice to me. Actually, we fight a lot. Really? No marriage is perfect. Each time we stop fighting, I can question again why… I married you? But I always remember, how every time we stop fighting and we calm down. We will care about each other’s feelings. Who’s right or wrong, we talk about it later. What’s important is that we try to understand,
our feelings. So, every time I regret marrying you, At the end of the day, I always think… It looks like… Even if I get to start over, hundreds of times, I will always choose you.