Grave of The Fireflies

Grave of The Fireflies - Review

You know in the beginning that they will (Spoiler Alert) die and/or get separated, yet the end still does not fail to shatter your heart. I had been avoiding this movie for a long, long time because I knew it was a sad one, but for some reason I decided to watch it today. Now my throat aches, my jaw is all clenched up and my eyes are filled with tears.

I do not know who to blame? I mean this story is not just about two children left to fend for themselves, its about war, careless adults,poverty, greed and cruelty. I don't know much about world history but whenever there is war its the weak who suffer most. I heard somewhere when two bulls fight it's the grass that crushed. personally I am a pacifist. I do believe in Freud's explanation of Thantos but there is also Eros. So if people have aggressive tendencies they also have nurturing one. It should be all balanced out but sadly it isn't and Hayao Miyazaki shows that to us through this movie.

The selfish human nature, the desire to protect your own and the greed for profit. As the children suffer worse and worse conditions we see their past lives before the war, when clean clothes were not a luxury. Those scenes makes you question the merits of war and why we act the way we do.

Throughout the movies I kept asking the same question, whose fault is it? Was Onee Chan too prideful, was Auntie San too harsh, the people who waged the war, the society, nature? Who is to blame? ??

Saddest scene: When Onee chan is closing the box. I can' imagine what that would have felt like. The boy lost his father, had to incinerate his mother and then his only refuge, his anchor, his little sister. He packed her like a doll and sent her to the next world. (I am bawling while I write this)

Recommended time to watch: When you think you can't feel anything inside.

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