Grave of the Fireflies
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Movie Reviews of Grave of the Fireflies
Movie Review: The Scariest Film I've Ever Seen
Summary: 5 Stars
And yet perhaps one of the greatest. The message of family, of life, responsibility and survival are shown in their strongest, truest-to-life forms in this movie. They WILL engrave themselves into your mind and bite you hard in the butt if you watch it and there is a 90% chance you will cry, even if you are known to not shed tears period.
There is nothing but sorrow, depression and death. There is no happiness, no light, no glimmer of hope that one would expect, but it is without a doubt one of the deepest and mandatory cinematic views, even if you are not a fan of the animation genre.
This is NOT a film for children unless they can bear to see a teenager find the bloodied near-dead (then later dead and maggot-covered) form of his mother and the cremation scene at the very end of the movie. If you are a parent, however, I would recommend this as a family viewing.
--- 5 out of 5 stars ---
Movie Review: Great Animation
Summary: 5 Stars
I envy the fact that this kind of dark drama can be possibly made into animation in Japan.
It's very gloomy and dark drama.
I saw this animation a long time ago with the crappy CD-rom movie. The picture was so bad at that time. And I finally bought the DVD two years ago and was so pleased by how they removed the noise and upgrade the sound.
If you expect animation like Disney's, this should be far from your expectation.
But if you want to watch an animation that is hard to be made in live action, this will be the one.
It is even realistic than live action films.
The story line and all that, you can read from other people's comment, but one thing I want to tell is, this makes you understand how war can change children's life who has nothing to do with politics or anything.
How they suffered.
Must buy animation.
Movie Review: Touching Movie, but distracting camera symbol pasted onto DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Everyone looks at this movie from a different perspective. Mine was not so much historical and country/culture specific. What saddened me was the way that children and the poor are treated still happens today in every society, and that, besides the story of the children, is what pulled at my heartstrings. I would encourage those of us out there with compassion to continue to remind others to walk in another's shoes before judging and treat others as you would hope they would treat you. I would recommend purchasing the movie, but check the two versions out by renting first. The one I purchased has a distracting symbol of a film camera in your line of vision during the entire movie, like a picture drawn on the tv screen with permanent marker. Had I known, I would have purchased a different version without it. ( I would be suprised if the filmmakers meant for it to be there on purpose - but you never know...)Movie Review: The saddest film I've ever seen...
Summary: 5 Stars
Although I have to wonder why Seita waited so long to act, until his little sister Setsuko was at death's door from malnutrition, before he withdrew that ¥3000 from the bank to buy food, that is my only question regarding the story line. I must say this film is PERFECT.
It is also the saddest movie of any kind I have ever seen. From the opening scene, I knew it would be hard to watch. It SHOULD remind us that thousands, perhaps 10s of thousands of small children starve to death, every day, in THIS world. THAT is equally tragic, yet most of us do not lift a finger to help them.
EVERYONE should see this stark condemnation of the horror of war. THIS is the true tragedy of war, wrought by adults, suffered by little children.
Movie Review: * * * * * * *
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my two favorite animated films, along with "My Neighbor Totoro".
But whereas I recommend Totoro to everyone - and have given away several copies of it - I don't usually recommend this film to anyone, because it is so sad. I do tell many people about it ~ but warn them to get their therapist's o.k. before watching it! (And even then, they should stop by the store for a few extra boxes of tissues!)
I agree with others that this film transcends nationalities and politics.
It should be mandatory viewing by all people who wage war.
And by everyone who votes for for people who wage war.
(But not by young ones - it isn't a cartoon - parents should see it first, before having their children watch it.)