When the Waves Rise (2020)

realistic coming of age story

Overall: this is a coming of age story with two high schoolers, 40 minutes on GagaOOLala and Vimeo.

What I Liked
- gentle slice of life feel
- realistic, they look like highschoolers instead of photoshopped models
- symbolism of the seesaw and the two plants

Room For Improvement
- wish the ending was a bit less open/more explicit/what was in the box?
- what exactly was said at school, I think I know but I'm not sure what happened there
- the Vimeo subs are ghost subs, small and white font/difficult to read