No one there. That’s the trauma in Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value. You can’t feel safe loving someone if there’s no one there as a child—no one who makes you know you have a secure home in their heart. Losing a mom or a dad when you’re little makes you run from love. Live in despair. Walled off. Scared to death that loss is all you’ll find. Just watch Gustav and Nora …

Guillermo del Toro’s Victor Frankenstein was an extremely traumatized child. He’s tormented by memories of abuse and loss that refuse to die inside him. He suffers endlessly. And, so does …