Really quickly before we get started, I wanted to share the below, which I wrote after watching Past Lives back in June. I’m removing the paywall from the original post because it’s awards season, it was one of my favorite films of the year, and I hope it receives the recognition it deserves.
on being an immigrant
A few years ago, I found myself in the enviable position of having to explain to a co-worker—my office-mate at the time, an adult, married, with two children whose education he was presumably caring for—that the northern and southern hemispheres' climates were flipped. I had to tell him, to his bewilderment, that in July, when it was summer in the northern hemisphere, it was winter below the equator. For a brief, dazzling moment, I was an accidental Earth and Space teacher.
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