In an artistic world where it can feel like there’s nothing totally new under the sun, phrasing and context can make the old resonate anew(ish).

Case in point: there’s no way Tuesday coined the following concept, but it still struck a novel(ish) chord.

The new movie’s final scene — spoilers, ahoy! — posits that, in a universe without an afterlife, the only afterlife the dead can live is in the lives of those who still remember them.

It’s a variation on mourning cliches like “they would’ve wanted you to be happy” and “live in their honor,” but there’s a difference to the logic of this theory: that every day of our lives, we are living the afterlives of those we’ve lost.

Which is basically the dramaturgy of the brother’s final “I breathed you in” monologue in What Became of Us.