"Grace Is Gone" is a film that focuses on describing the psychology of the characters. Stanley, played by John Cusack, is very vivid, and he fully shows the frustration. The theme of the film has the meaning of encouraging people to "look forward" and anti-war
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Although "Grace Is Gone" is a family-themed literary genre film, it also contains direct political content. The death of her mother on the battlefield in Iraq is the beginning of this story. The anti-war meaning of the film is self-evident. However, the film did not focus on portraying the grief of the family's bereaved family member to accuse the war in this aspect. The film cleverly transferred the theme to the father, focusing all the contradictions on how the father told his daughters about the unfortunate news. This smooth and gentle treatment makes it easy for the main and anti-war audiences to be brought into the film and assimilated
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