With all of the stresses that come with moving and trying to get everything together, I've lost count of the number of times over the years that I've just chucked any old thing in a box just to get everything ready in time for the moving day. Sometimes, for example, you'll come across something in a box that belongs in another room entirely, like finding a kettle in the boxes for the bathroom. There are lots of little touches and details to appreciate in Unpacking. It immediately dawns on me that they've been through a breakup when it transitions back to that bright room where it all began, and I can't stop thinking about just how well it portrays this through the act of moving. The signs were all there in the way that the rooms didn't really come together, but you keep trying to make it work anyway. It felt like I was intruding on a space that couldn't quite support everything I had… just like a bad relationship. I think back on the previous place I moved into, and the way nothing really seemed to fit too well together. Our main character has outgrown this old room, but circumstances have made it necessary for them to return anyway. This bedroom is too small to really allow for all of the objects I need to place, and that detail alone speaks volumes. After successfully organizing all of my things to fit in with someone else's, the realization of what the shift back to this colorful, childlike room means hits me hard and I take a moment to soak in what must have happened. Like when, suddenly, I'm having to unpack belongings back in the childhood bedroom. What grips me the most is the slow building of the story of someone's life through only the possessions they interact with and the places they move into.
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