to each

He felt they were communicating to each other a shared sense of disbelief.

As soldiers drove through the city shooting in the air and telling people to head indoors, my little sister and I clung to each other in a hallway, the only windowless space in our house.

But they warm to each other enough to sing their own duet, running through the salt mine with their arms stretched wide.

In the 24 years since, it’s been decades of terrorism, war, political instability, a widening wealth gap and rapid advancements that have rewired our culture, our brains and how we relate to each other.

And yet what drew me to the film — what draws me to it still — is its interest in character, or more precisely in circumstance: not what people do, but how they relate to each other.