Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Yeah, who would want to immortalize one of the most tragic events in history for? No need to remember all that.

Oh, were that boy and his sister some sort of legend? Sorry, I never heard about them other than in this film.


If you're talking about the greater situation that provoked their tragic circumstances, I don't see why there couldn't have been 1000 or that there haven't been 1000 other films with that as a background to a far better drama.

I found nothing theatrical, storytellingness, cinematic about the STORY. It was just a series of depressing events. This is just my opinion, but the story was weak. A series of events is not necessarily a story worth telling.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I found nothing theatrical, storytellingness, cinematic about the STORY. It was just a series of depressing events. This is just my opinion, but the story was weak. A series of events is not necessarily a story worth telling.

It was based on a semi-autobiographical novel, the author of which did lose a sister to malnutrition during the war and blamed himself.

What I found striking about the movie was how authentic its emotions were, how starkly it portrayed the pride-centric Japanese mentality, how well it depicted the collateral horrors of the war.

It was one of the most tangible and believable cinematic portrayals of grief and loss I've ever seen.