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“Home is not where we live, but where they understand us"

This is my first blog on any movie and I am not trying to review the movie but exploring the idea of ‘home’ presented so beautifully in movie ‘Away We Go’.

Even though I’d seen ‘Away We Go’ on the plane, I decided to see it again with one of my friend this past Sat. It’s a movie that hits ‘home’ on so many levels.

A 30-something couple – Verona and Burt – decide to move after Burt’s parents announce that they’re moving to Europe. The couple takes the news badly as Verona is 6 months pregnant and they cannot understand why Burt’s parents would separate themselves from the first 2 years of their baby’s life. They are suddenly rootless. Since both Verona and Burt work from home, they decide to move as their current home is a dump. However they don’t know where they should go. So, they end up visiting her old boss, her sister, his childhood friend, their university friends, and his brother throughout the US – seeking a place which they can call home. After a series of hysterical and/or moving encounters, they are inspired to return to Verona’s childhood home – a home she abandoned after her parent’s death.

While I have never taken such a journey, I’ve thought where I should setup my ‘base’ throughout the years. Near my parents, my brother or friends? or a new place? France, US, UK, India or somewhere in Africa? On an island? In a city?

I have lived in different cities but for me ‘home’ has always been my parents place. I don’t know if this will ever change and I will be able to find a place which I would be able to call home. Right now I am a homeless….

With love

Sumit