'Replay' spotlights resilience, loss, and intergenerational connectedness
Jordan Mechner is known for his video games. But here he brings to life the many twists and turns that underscore the pervasive impact of the past — and the connectedness that remains in the present.
It's 1988 and Jordan Mechner is 24-years-old — visiting New York from San Francisco to attend his grandfather's funeral — when his father, Franz, recalls a distressing but formative moment from his war-torn childhood: "I decided when I was nine years old to consider myself as already dead."
Jordan, his younger brother, and his father are sitting in a cozy domestic space, reminiscing over Papi's life, which, like Franz's early years, was beset with close calls. Father and son, both
