It’s a trauma to lose your beloved shepherd, George, especially when you’ve always been terrified of loss and death. Especially when he’s been murdered. You’ve tried to pretend that people and sheep don’t die. Sheep turn into clouds, right? And. You can “forget.” That’s a trauma defense. But Kyle Balda’s Sheep Detectives shows us why forgetting doesn’t work …

Dani suffers unimaginable trauma in Ari Aster’s Midsommar. The sudden murder/suicide of her parents and sister. Terrifying. Unstoppable. Unthinkable. She’s now an orphan. A trauma that brings such terrible grief, Dani can’t allow herself to feel it …Dani’s vulnerable. Starving. Open prey to being seduced into a place where she seems wanted, but not really for herself. AND. Where she lands …

“I don’t know how to fucking be here without you?” That’s the deep, lonely, grief-stricken cry of Roman in James Sweeney’s 2025 film, Twinless, after losing his identical twin, Rocky: “I don’t know …