Comments on: Bechora

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 01:20:06 +0000

Bechora touches on the quiet pressures of caring for siblings—how love, duty, and choice can blur when roles shift.

By: Mary Ann

Mary Ann — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:49:35 +0000

In reply to Jeremy Warshaw. Insightful comments on the film maker. The story is told in a short amount of time but conveys powerful messages. There are no unnecessary details (although I found myself wanting to know more about this family.) thanks for your comments.

By: Mary Ann

Mary Ann — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:45:12 +0000

This film brings a lot of emotions up for me. My father became ill my freshman year is high school and I helped my mom care for him. I was lonely and could not participate in after school activities or have many friends. I went away to college but only finished two years, having to return to help my parents. My mom passed away a few years later so my family moved back to my dad’s home where we cared for him for another 20 years. My children grew up with grandpa being ill, then their dad also became ill. They also had “different” childhoods. It was what God put before us, a great blessing, responsibility and challenge. Life would’ve been very different if we’d had “normal” circumstances. We would have been totally different, too. The love and commitment to family has made us compassionate and caring. Others think it was a burden, but the blessing far outweighs the burden. Being chosen to serve can give purpose to life. The film reveals the tension between those and the daily choices faced by caregivers. At 65 years old I think how different my life has been, and still feel lonely at times. It feels good to be understood, thank you!!

By: Jeremy Warshaw

Jeremy Warshaw — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:58:13 +0000

Anyone would appreciate the empathy and the naturalism on display in this small slice of life in the day of a young family caregiver. But as a film maker, what is so impressive is the quiet confidence of the choices the Director made. The pauses, the shot selection, the cutaways to the other students, the weariness alongside the sibling love of the main character and the sense that this will play out all over again the next day. If Ms Armon continues to apply this level of observational and empathetic film making to all future projects she will surely be a name to reckon with. This film was beautiful to watch and its tone was pitched just so. This is a film maker who sees others with kindness and integrity, and she has the directorial chops to convey emotional truth. Impressed.

By: Melody h'Art-Shaughnessy

Melody h'Art-Shaughnessy — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:32:41 +0000

Ah! Siblings . . . . a word that is often paired with “sibling rivalry” . . . . Now that my “siblings” are straddling that mysterious abyss between the “living” and the “diseased”. . . the old seeming “rivalries”
seem trivially insignificient in that mysterious viewpoint of “hindsight” . . . with now paired with deep and profound “INsight” . . . that universally ubiquitous “instinctive” . . . Intuitive way of ‘SEEing into BEing.