Lindsey Edwards

FeiFei sates near the end of the film, "You are not alone for love is all around you a love you've always known.. the heart grows, and it knows you can glow, you're wonderful". My rating is 5 stars because this film is definitely a good message to those still grieving a loss. Especially a lost lover or loss of a family member. I lost my own father in 2018, and while I'm an adult, it isn't a pain I'm used to. Death isn't an easy thing to handle, and while over time some of us just kind of grow numb to it because of how often it occurs, for others it always is a fresh wound. I can't speak of how the film is culturally or on any subject other than grief, but the messages this movie gives about how it is okay to still mourn someone no matter how long it's been rings true. You don't have to honestly let someone go. Chang'e was on the moon for thousands of years, mourning over Houyi and his death, she never stopped loving him, and she does slightly come off as a villain in this movie because of it, but when you step back and realize she's just heartbroken and dealing with her grief in a way that some people do actually deal with it in the real world, you feel kind of bad for her. People deal with pain and loss in many different ways. And FeiFei proves this in her own character development in a sort. She's a child, she's lost her mother. Her dad's trying to move on and find love again, and for a kid, that's not always an easy subject for them to handle. Death of a parent is hard (divorce isn't easy either, since in a kid's eye, parents should always be together), so FeiFei is rightfully upset. She doesn't understand and she hasn't had the time to get over the death of her mother. And there is no right amount of time for that. You can't just set a time limit for something like that. Some people can be over it in a few months, others take years. Ten, twenty, more. People vary. But I believe this movie is a good one to watch with your children in the event of someone passing away to help them understand that things change. When people die, it's okay to hurt. But it's also okay to come to those you love and care about to share stories and memories, it's okay to be angry at that person who died, too. Emotions are valid. And we need to work through them in order for those left behind to be okay and to move on. And in order to do that, we have to love one another. That's the message I got from this movie. And I hope it's the message others will get from it too.