Learning About Loss From “The Invite”

A movie showing the theaters now is called “The Invite” written by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones. Two mid-life married couples are neighbors in the same brownstone in San Francisco. One couple invites the other one for dinner and the whole movie is about one evening with numerous invitations extended.

In an interview with McCormack and Jones on NPR about their movie, they brought up the universality of loss and life. Jones said their work tends to focus on relationships and middle age: “Selfishly, it’s great that we can channel the thing we’re most interested in, which is relationships, living with other people, being parents, losing parents, being alive, getting older, being middle-aged, looking straight down the barrel of the back half of life. All these things we got to bring to this script.”

Then McCormack added, “Life is really just a series of losses. It’s one loss and one heartbreak after another. When you’re little, summer ends and you don’t want it to end, and then you get your heart broken, and then you have kids, and they’re going to break your heart, and then your parents die and then you start to lose bone density…

Please check out the full article in Forbes.com