I can't understand the dislike many seem to have for this movie.
Slow pace? No conclusion? Did we watch the same movie?
Of course this movie doesn't race, it's a story about first love and communication and how we can end up regretting never having voiced how we truly felt.
The main character surely regrets never having told his first love how he really felt. She on the other hand (having a letter for him she didn't give him) seems to be ok now.
Kanae, the girl in the second story shows the other side to that. She loved him, but she knew she could never have the love and happiness she hoped for, because he loved someone else.
And so the movie is showing us how we often can't ever feel that love again like when we were first in love with someone. Life continues, we become bitter or our heart hardens, either to protect us from pain or because it mourns the loss of our first love so much it dies.
I think the movie shows this beautifully in wonderful animation, with lovely music and a story-telling and character development ability that is near perfect. This movie made me care for characters I barely knew at all and I could really emphasize with them.
Tears still run down my cheek as I write this. Definitely a great Anime that should make us all think...
Slow pace? No conclusion? Did we watch the same movie?
Of course this movie doesn't race, it's a story about first love and communication and how we can end up regretting never having voiced how we truly felt.
The main character surely regrets never having told his first love how he really felt. She on the other hand (having a letter for him she didn't give him) seems to be ok now.
Kanae, the girl in the second story shows the other side to that. She loved him, but she knew she could never have the love and happiness she hoped for, because he loved someone else.
And so the movie is showing us how we often can't ever feel that love again like when we were first in love with someone. Life continues, we become bitter or our heart hardens, either to protect us from pain or because it mourns the loss of our first love so much it dies.
I think the movie shows this beautifully in wonderful animation, with lovely music and a story-telling and character development ability that is near perfect. This movie made me care for characters I barely knew at all and I could really emphasize with them.
Tears still run down my cheek as I write this. Definitely a great Anime that should make us all think...