Ajinkya Desai

There is NO SUBSTITUTE for GOOD PARENTING. And TEACH YOUR BOYS! That's all I'll say. Even though I wish to write a very verbose review for this film, I don't think it would help much, considering the rave reviews it has already gotten. I beg you to watch it.

This movie filled me up with love. I think being filled with love is always a necessity, but particularly in the times of COVID-19, during which we are reading about death and the loss of loved ones, watching a movie in which death is a central character and yet one that fills you up with love is revitalizing.

Unequivocally one of the best Japanese animated films of all time. Everyone deserves a second chance, and there's a lot more going on beneath the surface of someone who is trying to appear either tougher or more composed. In the kind of affection we yearn for from others, we are almost all like children in a sense.

A heartbreaking movie, and oddly comic at times, the movie will make some wonder if they have the capacity to forgive their foes, and if not, then ask what it says about them as human beings. The characters, most of which are civilians, are not people who made major decisions regarding the War and were, quite often, not given a voice in deciding whether they should participate in the War or not. It's deeply moving to be able to gaze into the simple, everyday lives of these innocent civilians.