As Leigh put it at the press conference, "The film is about about how we come to terms with life, how we face ourselves and each other.
Now or never!" In his essay "Fifteen Takes on California," the critic David L. Ulin writes of "our sense of this place as final landscape, last territory on the continent, where we face ourselves because there is nowhere to turn".
He asked why Israelis, faced with what "could turn out to be the biggest mistake ever" by their government, were absorbing the news with such "fatalistic resignation": "How will we face ourselves and our children when we are asked why we kept silent?" he wrote.
Instead each one convinced me that this is part and parcel of the work, and reminded me that the insecurity we face ourselves sometimes is often a fraction of what civilians in conflict situations find themselves in every night and day.
They require that we take responsibility, that we make changes, that we face ourselves, the good and bad in ourselves.
CHARLIE: At its best, psychotherapy creates a warm and understanding relationship through which we face ourselves and our feelings honestly in a way that allows us to heal from past wounds and accept ourselves as we are.
We don't know how strong we actually are until we face ourselves in the mirror in those harrowing moments of rock bottom, and say with conviction, "You can do this.
Mr Hanson added: "If we really think about what we want for our children, the result will always fall along the same lines: we want them to be happy we want them to be free of the hardships we have faced ourselves: we want them to find a genuine sense of well-being and be successful - with an appreciation of what that really means.
And having released ourselves from shame, we could face ourselves more honestly, acknowledging our flaws, addictions, cruelty, fear and destructiveness.
Those of us who work in them get so many conflicting messages, we have trouble facing ourselves in the mirror.
