A touching movie (Grave of the Fireflies)
Two days ago, I watched
Grave of the
Fireflies , a Japanese movie from 1988 which has taken the
hearts and minds of dozen of people throughout the years. Yes I
have to admit the movie is really increadinble in a sense it deals
with Human personages, philosophy, love, hate. It's a good example
why we humans should keep peace on earth and not start wars. The
whole story is about a boy and a girl (a brother and sister), who
live in Japan in the climax of the Second World War. Both the
children are under the full legal age and face the "nightmares" and
the terrible consequences of the war. Their mother dies and they
have to go to live to some relatives (their aunts). However the war
tragedy goes on, the bombing doesn't drop. The two children have to
leave their aunt, cause she is unwilling to take care for them
anymore, since they are not working and not bringing money / food
in the house. They leave and find a sort of a tomb where start
living on they own. Now the older brother has to provide his little
sis with food, nomatter how. He uses all kind of tricks, cheats,
thefts etc. to find the needed food to sustain his sister's life.
Though the unhuman efforts to keep her alive, his sister gets a
disease because of lack of nourishment and dies near the end of the
movie. Though she dies, I won't call the movie a tragedy. Yes it's
a sad movie but it's also really beautiful and touching. I could
classify it amongst my movie list of spiritual movies that are, "a
must see" ones.