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Maybe a cocked brow or an uh-huh.
Its, like, whatever.
So they might stonewall or deadpan:totally.
He tries to amend the comment and Sabi cuts him off.
Sabis sister Aqsa (Supinder Wraich) wants them to go abroad.
Some things are just too big to be choices, she says.
Violet, in the key of adolescent brat, pretends not to know them.
Sabi, on the phone with Paul, tells him to white-savior it, and the principal relents.
The demand from outsiders upon seeing someone like Sabi is this: Explain yourself.
And what both Sabi the character andSort Ofthe show insists upon is doing so on their own terms.
(The buoyant, genre-spanning score was also conceived by a music factory of five Toronto artists.)
The first interaction between Sabi and their mother Raffo (Ellora Patnaik) aches with unspoken tension.
They both catch each other off guard.
Then she notices something else: Sabi is crying.
Sort Ofis gentle with its characters even as the stakes are existential.
Everyone feels fully inhabited, and as Sabis carefully compartmentalized worlds begin to collide, a fizzy alchemy occurs.
Sort of is an answer kind of.
A yes with a shrug.
Were not so different from everyone else, she tells them over breakfast the next day.
Everyone is in a state of transition.
One particle becoming another, and then another.
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