After his life hits rock bottom, emotionally despondent Casey (Breckin Meyer, Happily, Clueless, Road Trip) decides to end it all. But when a timely phone call with some unexpected news about a substantial inheritance forestalls his suicide, it sets off a chain of events that just may save his life including meeting a quirky single mother (Emily Kinney, “The Walking Dead”, “The Flash”) and her precocious, yet troubled, young daughter (Giselle Eisenberg, “Life in Pieces”, “American Housewife”), who happens to have an unhealthy obsession with mass shootings. When his bipolar mother goes missing, Casey enlists their help, along with his selfish, estranged sister, Missy (Debra Herzog). And together, through numerous jarring twists and emotional turns, they embark on a journey of hope and healing in THE ENORMITY OF LIFE, a tender, poignant dramedy about life, love and the pursuit of lost innocence.

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Video Quality

The Enormity Of Life comes to MOD Blu-Ray in a 1080p presentation that is very pleasant across the board. The film has nice but fairly standard cinematography, choosing a lot of close-up and medium shots that never get too adventurous in their movement. The colors are given a lovely, natural saturation which never disappoint when it comes to accuracy and vibrancy. The skin tones look precise all around with impressive facets apparent in close-ups. The white levels pop without veering into blooming, and the blacks only appear the slightest bit lacking at points without suffering from any compression artifacts. The natural environments and interiors radiate off the screen with an incredible amount of detail and dimension. There are no instances of intrusive digital noise in the presentation outside of a few odd moments against certain backgrounds. We feel that every movie no matter the size deserves a Blu-Ray release, so it is not this made the cut with this fine transfer.

Audio Quality

The film comes to Blu-Ray with a decent Dolby Digital 5.1 track in the original English. As always, we advocate for a lossless audio format, so this track could technically be more robust, but with the limited audio ambitions it is not a dealbreaker in the end. The movie does feature some light arguing, but the calm moments make up the lion’s share of the film as they provide your typical environmental activity which comes through well. The music underscores some of the emotional moments as they flow through with lovely fidelity. The dialogue and sound effects such as car engines are perfectly balanced with competing elements where nothing gets lost in the mix. The low end of the track never really does more than add a bit of surface level texture to certain scenes. Surround channels get some fine activity from the chatter of background characters and various environmental noises. Outside of being a lossy track, there is not too much to hate here. This comes with optional English SDH subtitles.

Special Features

The Making Of The Enormity Of Life: A ten-minute piece which features some interviews with the cast and creative team as they delve into the thematic layers of the story, finding the truth of the narrative, the interplay between the editing and the sound design and more. Oddly enough, this was created when the title of the movie was Anhedonia, so all of the text and references to the film are via that title.

Trailer: The two-and-a-half minute trailer is provided here.

Final Thoughts

The Enormity Of Life is a decently constructed story which longs to tell an emotionally wrenching tale of mental health struggles and the bonds you can form in the most unexpected places. There are individual moments where this works, but taken as a whole the story never feels authentic. If you are an open-hearted person, you may find great comfort in the fast friendship between our main characters, but their exchanges feel written with capital “I” ideas in mind instead of feeling like a natural back and forth. The charm of our performers make this feel nice in the moment, but the fondness fades quickly after the credits stop rolling as the flaws come to the surface of your memory. Bayview Entertainment has released a Blu-Ray featuring a fairly strong A/V presentation and a decent special feature. If you desire to be played like an emotional piano, this one might work out nicely for you.

The Enormity Of Life is currently available to purchase on Blu-Ray and Digital.

Note: Images presented in this review are not reflective of the image quality of the Blu-Ray.

Disclaimer: Bayview Entertainment has supplied a copy of this disc free of charge for review purposes. All opinions in this review are the honest reactions of the author.