‘The Final Year’ fills the screen with grace and a ticking clock

“The Final Year” – If a doctor said that you had one year left to live, what would you do?    Just before that moment, you might believe that time is a forever-companion, and after it, realize that it is an extraordinarily precious commodity.  Whether attempting to experience previously-evasive fruits of life, tether distant relationships or write the next great American novel, the clock is ticking.  It is counting down, impossible to ignore. Conversely, a high school student enters a scholastic institution with a clearly-defined, four-year construct, and even though an…