people shift registers of story within their own lives—adopt characters, try on narratives, talk in metaphor until it becomes the real thing.

This is a wonderful thing to see portrayed and wonderful for you to note. It's something very present and beautiful and tragic that I see around me all the time, and it deserves more notice.

Syracuse knows for a fact that when she goes out with him in his trawler and sings, his usually empty pots come up full of lobsters and his nets leave him ankle-deep in salmon, which you shouldn't even be able to catch trawling. --This is wonderful too, especially in the context of what you say later in the review. Maybe more of us should try singing to the sea. I really do think that if more people did live a magical story, more magic would manifest. I mean that totally unmetaphorically.

How they tell the story they find themselves in makes a difference to the kind of story it turns out to be. Yes. Yes indeed. This goes along with your wisdom the other day about love, that its uncertainty is what makes it powerful and true.

I love how much attention the film allows the details of life in its contemporary coastal town

I am so sold. I am putting it right onto Netflix [if it's available that way]

I find myself much more interested in the simultaneous currents of fairytale and workaday reality than in the resolution of one in favor of the other

You and me both. I think it's a bugbear of Western tale telling. Guys! I feel like hollering. You don't need to nail it down!