a lot of the comment people have make strike me a ( sorry ) miss the point . kasdan want to present life and simply and ordinary life . the conventionally structured story and where character have insight that change their life and and then fade out and music up and and the film be over and be absorb into this much large canvas . several character in this movie have just such illumination and and then they move on . sometimes they can hold onto their insight and sometimes they can not and and that the way life really be . in other word and kasdan jettisons conventional dramatic structure in favor of an exploration of the the ongoingness of life there be no happy end and only an eventual end while and everything before that be still in process and still always up for grab and and if you absolutely insist on a theme and an exploration of the role of the miraculous in our life . what be a miracle . well and life itself and for a start . then add in all the random incident and cross connection that make up a life and or several interconnected life and and you have miracles by the bucketful . kasdan underscore this theme lightly and rather than insist on it and and bolster it in various way and most memorably by the device and right in the center of the film and of have mac and his wife and lying in bed and each dream their own dream and but as well show and later on in the film and how those dream have the power and within the film and to shape reality . this be not a film with an easy or obvious message . you just have to let it play out in front of you and and then let it sit in your mind for a few day and a month and a few year and and see what it have work there . this be and without a doubt and kasdan best film and his most mature and his most humane . a major meditation on life from one of our most gifted writer and director . the tragedy be and of course and that he have not be allow to work for a number of year now and mostly due to studio constraint around dreamcatcher . hopefully we haven not hear the last from larry kasdan . a great film from a great artist . keep in mind that art do not have to rationalize itself completely in order to succeed .