How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

after my own grandma passed) it destroyed me in ways i fully expected it to and somehow even more than that. i was completely inconsolable afterward, and i mean that as the highest compliment i can give. full transparency: i'm a big BIG fan of billkin, and he's what drew me to this film initially. but usa semkhum as mah completely won me over. i adore her with my entire heart. her performance is so genuine, so lived-in, so heartbreakingly real that she doesn't feel like an actress playing a grandmother. she feels like everyone's grandmother, including mine. what makes this film extraordinary is its refusal to sugarcoat anything. M starts out with selfish intentions: he wants the inheritance, plain and simple. the movie doesn't shy away from that ugliness. but then it drives into a painfully honest exploration of how love and guilt and regret can coexist, how we often only realize what we have when we're about to lose it, and how caregiving changes both the carer and the cared for. it's so, so incredibly messy and complicated and achingly human. the dynamic between M and mah evolves so naturally that you barely notice when the transactional relationship becomes something profoundly meaningful. By the time you realize how much they've come to mean to each other, it's almost too late, and that's exactly the point. this movie is a masterpiece of quiet, devastating emotional storytelling. it's about how we only ever learn to love properly when time is running out. mannnnnnnn. bring tissues. bring many, MANY tissues. i got a lot of "FUCK YOU AURO!!!!!!!"s for recommending this movie.