Dear Zachary

'Is there anything you would like to say to Zachary?'

How do i review this?

Let me start by saying that this is not a movie. Its not even a documentary. Its a memoir and a letter. Its an attempt to capture the fading memories of a dead friend, a beloved son, a respected colleague, a flesh and blood human being whose violent death has created an emotional vacuum that should normally have been filled with rushing anger and bitterness, even a lasting hatred.

What you see instead is something incredible. You see a clear line being drawn in the sand; between good and evil in our world. You see circumstances shatter and shake all beams of reality, and then you see different people fill in those vacuums differently. While some expand into luminous beacons of humanity, others grow hollower by the day, until they are consumed by the echoes of their own vacant words.

I will fail miserably to review this, so i will not even try anymore. One can review a film, because it is reviewing the structure and execution of a perspective. One cannot review life, for it will always astonish you with its vastness, with the richness and depth of its color, and the black abyss of its madness. I wish there was a tangible takeaway from this viewing. A deeper understanding of why anything happens at all. But in the end, there's only what you have experienced. There's only what you have seen.

Go watch it. Thats all i can say.