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So much of your experience of a movie is down to the context in which you see it. The same film can hit entirely differently at a new life stage, to the extent that I feel like I need to revisit everything each time I pass a significant milestone.

Turns out that the clichés are true and parenthood changes you in ways you have no hope of grasping in advance. As a viewer it has obviously made me soppier,

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