And it's never revealed why Julia (and her partner) never considered adoption or other alternative means to family making before they separated. Outside of knowing that she desperately wants to conceive a child, that she hasn't been able to yet, and that she and her partner have broken up over years of child conceiving failure, the viewer knows nothing about Julia. The film launches right into Julia's pain and suffering well before there's any time to get to know her, who she is, and why the audience should care about her. else"), cringe-y decisions (the sex scene, the ending), and unexplained ambiguities (the woman at the end, the wishing tree) all make for an at times laborious watch. Unfortunately, conventional writing ("Why would you infect me with your doubt?" "I want to feel something. But while The Wishing Tree (2020) strives for a quietly powerful introspective journey of a woman's idea of who she should be, a few issues keep this story from feeling important or relevant. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weeklyĮarnestly shot and performed, this indie drama has plenty of gentle acoustic guitar that accompanies montages and scene transitions. A woman drinks a mystical concoction of some sort. A man recovering from alcoholism carries around a bottle of whiskey "to know it's there." Another man drinks some whiskey and gets a little drunk. There's some brief nudity (bare breasts and butts) during a sex scene between two men and a woman. There's a fair amount of strong language "f-k," "f-ker," "f-king," "s-t," "a-hole," "damn," and "hell"), some violence (a man almost drowns in a river, a woman hits a man in the face, cutting his lip, a man shoves another man off him after the shoved kissed the shover without consent), and many scenes that show adults crying (a woman's mother dies in a hospital bed, a woman suffers a stillbirth after also going through many miscarriages, couples argue). The film deals with adult subjects like miscarriage, depression, alcoholism, and divorce. Julia has recently lost her mother, an unborn child, and a husband, and tries to find an old tree that gave her peace when she was a child. Parents need to know that The Wishing Tree (2020) is an indie drama about a woman's search for peace and understanding after a series of traumatic losses.
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