The original post: /r/movies by /u/Sanaan01 on 2024-12-24 11:03:55.
I had been putting off this movie since like forever but I gave it a watch today and I hated the movie, hated how real it felt, hated knowing this was a real story. The movie seems like it will stay in my life forever.
I have watched other depressing movies like Manchester by the Sea. But this movie truly changed my perspective of life. Setsuko didn't deserve to be brought up in such a time.>! Seita didn't deserve the stress of becoming orphaned and taking care of his sister alone.!< I've been reflecting a lot life can really change soo fast. Also definetly do not watch this movie a day before your birthday.
Knowing that the siblings will die from the start I thought would ruin the movie but when ever something good happens I knew the eventual fate of these siblings which made me sad even at the happy moments.
Seita was a flawed individual no doubt the sense of pride he had led to the eventual events of the movie. I wonder if he just stuck it up helped the aunt, cleaned the dishes etc but ig he was too prideful being the son of a navy soldier
I found out that the poster shows a bomber if you up the brightness which is evermore sad.
This was truly an horrific time, all the things in school that I have learnt about WW2 they only showed statistics some of the horrors the alied nations went through, but nothing relating of how the innocent japenese civilians suffered