The Savages

I just watched The Savages, a dark, sad movie with Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

It's about two somewhat distant siblings who suddenly have to take care of their elderly father with dementia. The characters are all unhappy, unsatisfied people kind of struggling to make it through minute by minute.

It freaked me out, because of my anxieties about aging and death, so it was difficult for me to watch.

The acting was amazing. However, at the end, suddenly, things looked brighter for the two main characters, and it was unclear why. Like the movie had to have an uplifting consolation. But it seemed tacked on to me.