Breathe (2022)

Watchseries; It seems to me more than half of folks reviewing this movie watch only fast and furious and blockbuster easy on the mind movies. These other types of movies also exist. Not perfectly but they tell a story.

Yes, some movies are just an easy pass time, some others are a slow burning story with some message. Why being so short sighted?

This is not a "survival" movie with lots of "flashbacks". Sorry simpletons, this isn't that. This is a double entry story and a search for a life meaning within this young busy lawyer. Liv has a past with trauma, insecurities and frustrations. This journey in the wilderness will show her a completely new path to her life. Transformation, self-discovery and reconciliation with her own past are keys.

Enjoy it as it is, take the time to watch instead of putting a tantrum because it is not fast enough, realistic enough, simple enough and mindless enough.

It seems to me more than half of folks reviewing this movie watch only fast and furious and blockbuster easy on the mind movies. These other types of movies also exist. Not perfectly but they tell a story.

Yes, some movies are just an easy pass time, some others are a slow burning story with some message. Why being so short sighted?

This is not a "survival" movie with lots of "flashbacks". Sorry simpletons, this isn't that. This is a double entry story and a search for a life meaning within this young busy lawyer. Liv has a past with trauma, insecurities and frustrations. This journey in the wilderness will show her a completely new path to her life. Transformation, self-discovery and reconciliation with her own past are keys.

Enjoy it as it is, take the time to watch instead of putting a tantrum because it is not fast enough, realistic enough, simple enough and mindless enough.

Breathe watchseries. The reason why a lot of people didn't like this series is because they thought it would be a show about a woman surviving in the wilderness. That's it. But the real survival is the one she struggles with inside, and every event that happens in the wilderness plays a part in her letting go and getting through her trauma from childhood to adulthood. There are a lot of flash backs. But it's vital to why she keeps waking up each day and pushes through to keep alive.

First it's about being tough.

Then it's about finally freeing yourself of the pain you hang on to.

And also: The videography and scenery are beautiful. The music on point. It was a gorgeous show that deserves more than the low reviews. Don't be afraid to watch it- you might cry like I did at the end.

I totally don't understand the bad reviews. I guess people were expecting a run of the mill survival story, all action.

This is not that; it is a survival story, but it's a different kind of survival: it's wilderness survival juxtaposed with survival of childhood trauma and familial mental illness. In fact, I still am not sure if there even really was a wilderness survival component or if it was all in her mind.

This is actually a drama, not an action piece.

The main actress was amazing, and in my opinion, so was the writing. It was really deep, and there are lots of clues throughout that all is not what it seems. The bottle of lithium vs other bottles, which sometimes show a different name; the music, talking about "chemical imbalance". The stars and moon on the child's ceiling vs the stars and moon in the wilderness. The relaxation/mindfulness recording vs the actual wilderness.

This was so well made that I binge watched the entire thing.

An insufferable lawyer, always being annoying and harsh to anyone around her, is abruptly alone to survive in the wilderness (because people supposedly to be experts in that matter suddenly decided to act as scared little toddlers). But that is just a pretext to show us in flashbacks just how unsympathetic and unrelatable she has been in her life because child-parent mild trauma. The actress did a good job. The problem was a script that gives the lawyer a plot armor against everything but that just makes the character unrelatable and the challenges hilarious. The funny thing is the positive "reviews" that try to discredit the negative ones by assuming the problem was the lack of adventure and survival elements when the show fails miserably to provide us a sympathetic character or a compelling redemption arc. Do not waste your time.

I don't think the average reviewer was ready for this film, possibly they never will be. But for some it will resonate.

What you will find with this series:

Liv is so busy with her material life and running from her childhood trauma that she has become cold and distant to all of those around her. This gives her control over her life but only over the shallow parts of life ... career focus.

Liv has some trauma from her childhood related to her moms mental illness. She yearned for her moms acceptance but her mom was too narcissistic with her illness that she couldn't reflect back the love her daughter needed. Her mom refused to address her illness and caused a lot of pain to Liv and her dad. And Liv not understanding it in her youth took out her moms abandonment on her dad.

Liv is barely able to take care of herself in the wild. Her time in Girl Scouts as a child instilled some skills that she is able to use. I found the survival scenes to be gritty and mostly real for what the series needed to be. The NWT are no joke and survival would be tough but not impossible. As far as being dumped unprepared into the wilderness I found her situation to be pretty hopeless but found her actions to be realistic given her predicament. Many people commenting find her walking in circles to be unrealistic .... Obviously they have not been in the wild where there are no landmarks to follow for miles, there is a reason people use compasses in the woods. Your natural gate has a dominant leg and that leg covers a bit more distant than your other leg. So yes given enough room you would easily walk in a circle if you had zero experience walking through a forest.

Amongst all of the above Liv goes through a transformation into adulthood. Anyone who knows about serious trauma ... you need to face your pain and process it to move on otherwise you are stuck at the same maturity level you were at when the trauma was indicted.

In this sense Liv is so afraid of being abandoned that she never lets anyone get close. She didn't realize just how much her dad did to be there for her even if he was not always at his best.

In both flashbacks and her thoughts about what she wish she could say and do now you see how Liv was in her past towards people, arrogant ... cold ... distant. A person driven to perfection at work ... yet clumsy with her personal relationships. And with her reflections you see her open up to those people who were in her life to say what she really means ... to express her thoughts.

Through those flashbacks and reflections you see Liv begin to work through her trauma to define who she is rather than her trying to live under the yearning approval from a mother who long left her behind. And what emerges is a new Liv who is more confident with herself and how she sees herself in the world. For anyone who has been in a life threatening situation you will recognize this type of growth and the epiphanies that come with it ... the learning of what is really important in life.

I have to say this series is way above average. I can understand that most people will take a shallow approach to it and not see the work as it's meant. Partly because they can't connect with how people process trauma, partly because they don't know the mental growth that comes from life and death situations.

Way to many flashbacks! I mean, it just does not move forward. Both actresses are good but the boyfriend makes you want to go to sleep. The place is beautiful and the series starts promising but the it goes back and forth for ever...