Dawning Review: A Psychological Horror Visualizing Trauma and Mental Health Issues

What do you do when a past you have tried to outrun keeps reemerging? Dawning, the directorial debut of Young Min Kim, tries to visualize what happens when mental illness, trauma, and grief collide in the form of a psychological thriller. Set in both dusty Los Angeles and a high rise in New York, the past fuses with the present day to create a haunting picture of the impact of a suicide on a woman’s life. Now a successful therapist on the other side of the country, no matter how hard she tries to get away from the past she left behind in Los Angeles, it will catch up to her. When it comes time to return home to help her sister, fresh off of a breakup, and get over the loss of someone in her life, things start to get a little messy.

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