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Feeling depressed, might watch The Road later.

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Morgan Schlitz

i heard this movie was one of the saddest movies out there, ill try to watch your reaction to it this weekend

Erik Christensen

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." Dr. Cesar A Cruz

Ariel

The original story that this movie was adapted from was semi-autobiographical- obviously the author didn’t die, but he did lose his adoptive father to fire bombings, one sister to sickness, and another to malnutrition (like Setsuko) in the war and its aftermath, and wrote it as an apology to this sister

HunterStone

Hilarious intro lol. I would also need a drink if i were to ever rewatch this movie. Which i wont because i dont want to go through that again lol

HunterStone

Yes most Studio Ghibli films have a slower pacing when you first watch them but i think that slow pacing has helped them perfect the slice of life scenes. I think they are perfect at slice of life moments.

HunterStone

Went to reddit to see if anybody had any answers for why he didnt use the money. I found two good answers. I like to think that Seita didn't withdraw all of the money because he was holding on to some hope that his father was still alive. When the doctor wouldn't help his sister out when she was suffering from malnutrition, that was the final straw. He had to give up. He learned that Japan had surrendered and his father was likely dead shortly after he withdrew the money, too. It could also be that by then, the war was technically over so food was then available to buy. Otherwise I imagine there'd be rations, he couldn't just go and buy whatever he wanted.

HunterStone

Dont really get why you dont consider this one of the best animated films of all time. i think it deserves to be called that.