To anyone who has experienced grief of any kind, there’s a recognizable pattern that takes over. Sometimes, after a loss, you throw yourself into something so fully — work, hobbies, romance, whatever it may be — as a way to make sure you have no time to think about anything else, especially not the person who died.
In 2007, writer Helen Macdonald handled the sudden passing of their father (Alisdair Macdonald, the famed photojournalist) by diving back into a hobby they’d long left in the past: Macdonald purchased a hawk.
Helen Macdonald uses they/them pronouns, but, at the time this movie takes place, used she/her pronouns. This article uses they/them pronouns when talking about Macdonald in the present tense, and she/her to distinguish the character played by Claire Foy in the film.
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