She struggles into her way-too-fancy red dress for the upcoming dinner. Waking from a stupor, she rings her boyfriend and leaves him a furious voicemail, telling him that she relied on him for support and that he abandoned her when she needed him.

When it is time to remove the roasted turkey from the oven, she is drunk and out-of-control. She then goes downstairs to find the rest of the family enjoying a toned-down version of Thanksgiving dinner without her. She doesn't look like a Hollywood actress playing at being an addict.

The film feels like a blazing catharsis for all involved. The frantic score would be appropriate for a horror film, and in a lot of ways "Krisha" is a horror film (the first moment evokes pure psychological terror).

Shults' immersive style drove that home in ways both funny and terrifying. Krisha is visibly upset by this. She looks like the real thing.

The addict shows up, there are tense scenes, shouting matches, maybe a relapse, but in the end, there is hope after all.

It seemed so important that the turkey come out well. Fear. “Waves” opens joyously. The story behind shooting "Krisha" is almost as extraordinary as the film itself.

Krisha sobers up, watching home videos Robyn has of Trey as a child. In interviews, Shults and his family are quite open about the fact that the film is based on their shared experience with an addict relative.

Shults' mother (a therapist in real life) has a scene with Krisha in an upstairs bathroom that is so pained, so raw, that it puts other confrontation scenes in other films to shame. "You are a Krisha Fairchild is Shults' aunt, who has done mostly voiceover work. Shults’ camera, guided by his regular cinematographer Drew Daniels, glides through the life of a handsome, happy, successful Florida teen named Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.).

The cousins, all boys around the same age (high school and college), have arm-wrestling contests, watch football, sneak off to watch porn upstairs, play boardgames. The family has moved on without Krisha, the space she used to take up is no longer there. The film ends with an abrupt shot of Krisha looking into the camera, trying and failing to hold back tears. "Krisha" is both realistic and deeply surreal.

People in the real world know that not every "addiction tale" has "redemption" at the end of it. She tries hard. She's buoyant and fragile, self-pitying, clueless. They are right to keep their distance. But … We all know how addiction narratives usually play out (at least in the movies). Hopelessness. "Krisha" is both realistic and deeply surreal. The disaster movie "2012" is about the near-total destruction of planet Earth in accordance with predictions made by Ancient Mayans, thousands of years ago.While most of the movie is centered around spectacular explosions and impressive special effects, "2012" also communicates messages and symbolism about the elite's plans for a New World and the coming of the Age of Aquarius. She really is "heartbreak incarnate." It wasn't just a turkey. Various theories on Reddit pertain to Pelle, but one of the most intriguing ones suggests that Pelle is the Hårgas' Oracle, and he plotted out the events that unfold in Midsommar himself. Shults leaps around visually, from the nephews wrestling in the yard, to Krisha tearing the kitchen apart looking for the oven-timer, the camera whirling around her in dizzying 360-degree turns, to Robyn and her husband having whispered worried pow-wows in the corner, as Krisha peeks at them anxiously. The movie is all about her face. There is Krisha's sister Robyn (Over the course of the next couple of hours, Krisha prepares the turkey, (at one point the bandage on her finger—a finger missing its tip from some unexplained catastrophe—disappears inside the bird), sneaking out to smoke butts on the patio, or retreating to the bathroom upstairs to stare at herself in the mirror, trying to calm down.