Hope Frozen

Following a family from Bangkok who decide to try and freeze their daughter after she dies of Cancer in hope to resurrect her in the distant future once her illness can be treated and she can be saved Hope Frozen is a really great documentary. Obviously when the subject is a family dealing with the loss of their daughter the emotions are going to be powerful but what I didn't expect was to see the strength this also gave them. Both the father and son are scientists and this drives them to push science to hopefully find a cure as quick as possible and figure out a way to revive her, there are a lot of really interesting perspectives throughout this film of scientists working on this type of thing and to hear their predictions on where this science will eventually be and see some of the breakthroughs they are making was incredibly engaging and interesting.

The film also created an unexpected conversation surrounding if what this family was doing is right or wrong which also proved to be interesting, many people around them believe that by freezing their daughter they are trapping her soul from reincarnation and going against fate. This is something they have to deal with and think about which I really enjoyed, similar to the criticism of Evan Funke in the documentary Funke or the look at the social pushback from the community in the documentary Sea of Shadows both from earlier this year, having this open discussion that is not trying to hide the criticism but rather explore it and use it adds another level to the films narrative and makes it all the more engaging and impressive.

Overall Grade: A-