Beautifully shot and acted, but less dark or deep than I had hoped. Though many nitpicks lie ahead, I had to rate this highly for the aesthetics and the lush, unrushed pacing.

I have to question the casting of "Awkwafina" in a primarily Black film given she still hasn't answered for building a career on horrendous anti-Black cultural appropriation. Though she did a fine job, her presence was so weird and inappropriate to me that it was intensely distracting. There's a million other WOC who could've crushed that role without the anti-Black baggage.

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I feel like the threat of menace with Jack was dropped out of nowhere. He had a violent outburst and then...nothing? Maybe they intended for us to assume that Jack would end up snapping and hurting the family, but that seems too dark a takeaway for how maudlin the ending was filmed. I can tell you if my spouse threw something across the room, I wouldn't be snuggling in bed with them that same night. The way that was filmed was very menacing and then everyone just acted like it didn't happen? Plus the "foreshadowing" with Jack having not completed his psych evaluation? I'm confused.

The moral quandries introduced are not really explored, and that's a shame. The thought of my loved one dying alone, watching me through someone else's eyes, is so sad. Devastating. Especially considering that's so close to what happened to so many people with COVID. This film didn't hit me like I thought it would. Somehow it didn't fully capture the tragedy of this choice, or the potential betrayal at the heart of it all. It's nonsense to base such a big decision on a throwaway comment from your spouse.

I had a thought at the end what if we saw a future where everyone replaced themselves and then their replacements were all living with each other, all thinking they were originals, forever?