This is the sort of movie my mum would take me to on my birthday when I was a kid and I'd quote it, act out scenes, and pester my mum for a boomerang.
In that respect, it is 5*
However, not being 7 anymore might have impeded my enjoyment. I mean that in the most complimentary way possible.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It's unimportant that she lost.
What's important is she got back up and kept trying.
'I'll keep going! I'll keep going!'
There's a lot I really like about its film and its message, especially in how each person understands and responds to Ichiko's journey.
However, I find the use of SA unwarranted and I find it incredibly lazy and infuriating when films use SA as a plot point. The film is unchanged without it and it makes me think the…
There are some things in your life that you shouldn't sacrifice as they're the parts that make life worth living.
Life will tempt you to abandon them and your past will abandon you.
All you can do is try not to abandon yourself.
One single action decides whether you are good or bad.
You can so easily be considered bad for things you didn't do.
You can so easily go unjudged for the bad things you did do.
We are judged for things we don't understand why we even did them.
People try to find reasons to actions that have no reason.
People project a lot. There is often no changing them from their reality anyway.
Further to this, we are punished by the good we do.
And in the end it doesn't really amount to anything.
Things tend to balance out.
