It never poses a big problem in any way, It’s just the matter of it being an option that she suddenly doesn’t have any more that can add to the notion of things changing whilst she was gone, or even because she was gone. This bothers Mae in a way that makes us think that it’s an area that she would’ve frequented many times when she was younger. Needless to say it’s the small changes that jump out at us at home, further here being the crawlspace in the storage area which is now blocked with old belongings and clutter. The former being something that she points out as being somewhat of an anachronism, noting also that it’s odd that something so large or elaborate serves a sole purpose that we nowadays find quite inconsequential. We seldom, if ever see them all together as a family, highlighting Mae’s nostalgic pauses at the family portrait in the landing, which is also adorned with other pieces of furniture such as the grandfather clock and the birdcage. Whilst in the daytime her Mum is usually sitting in the kitchen reading whilst her Dad is working at one of the areas new developments, 'The Ham Panther'. Alone time with her Dad is usually a calm affair in which we can see Mae, more or less being herself a lot more than she feels that she can with her Mum, she’s not grilled or questioned, or continually encouraged to talk about ‘what happened at college’. In the evenings her Dad is usually watching TV alone whilst her mum, we assume is in bed. The Borrowski family home is more or less how Mae remembers it. It could also be that her auntie is a bureaucratic pain in the arse and Mae doesn’t want to been seen as a helpless little girl anymore, which is quite telling in the bigger picture. Mae’s reaction could be borne out of frustration from merely being left to make her own way home or possibly that she has a less than patient attitude towards authority now that she’s been away into the big wide world. The rather sombre journey home through the woodland is interrupted by her police officer aunt who scolds her for taking a route through an area that’s out of bounds. Nuances that suddenly show up and tap into that part of our life that has now by default become a finished chapter. It also highlights the feeling of coming back after the first time of being away for a lengthy period. A wistful lullaby at a quiet moment of her youth with nothing else but her thoughts to accompany her.įor those that have returned to their childhood home, even for a short spell, this is a relatable situation as sights and sounds can almost seem fresh and bring about a possible sense of warmth. A taste of the mood to come perhaps being that the town isn’t in the best state it’s ever been in carrying a state of general unrest and sense of forlornness with the inhabitants.Īlmost straight away Mae mentions feelings of nostalgia for the haunting sound of the train going by, recalling how she used to hear it ‘in bed in the winter, whilst the leaves were down’. We’ve seen set pieces in other stories which have characters arriving into a town that perhaps seems less than friendly giving a noir and romantically downbeat feel to the world of which we’re coming into. Her conversation with the janitor who clearly doesn’t have a lot of contact with people for a lot of the time brings about an air of detachment to Possum Springs. Either way there was clearly no contact between them on the day she was arriving home so who knows…Ī nice moody and somewhat dystopian feel to the beginning of the story. Did they ever care whilst she was in college? This could be part of why she felt alone or maybe she shut them out and they gave up trying. Mae arrives at the town’s bus station at night no parents, compounding perhaps that they don’t care. This is based on the PC Weird Autumn version. A long form video introspective review that I wrote not too long after the switch release.
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