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Japanese propaganda film to overshadow Imperial Japan’s war crimes
Well, with such a start, that movie broke my heart. The only other animated movie that did that was Up!
Because it might have been unbearable in live-action.
I saw this in film class in college and my reaction was a fairly common one, “This is a great film and I have no desire to see it again.”
Such a great movie. But sad
Because a live-action version of the same story starring such young kids and in such a vast landscape of devastation would’ve been impossible to film on a comparable budget, to say nothing of the filmmakers being, you know, full-time professional animators.
I used to like Grave of the fireflies, it had a deep emotional resonance when I first saw it; devastating and heartbreaking, but I now view it as manipulative, sentimental trite. The heart of the film is the relationship of the boy and his sister; living in a childlike idyllic straight out of a Disney film. While one can view it as the boy’s stubborn refusal to grow up which causes the tragic death of his sister I find this inconsistent with the sentiment of the film. He is trying his best despite being unwise but we sympathise with his struggle because of uncaring aunts, brutish farmers and unsympathetic bystanders.