FIRST TIME WATCHING: Grave of the Fireflies (Patreon Exclusive)
Hey folks!
It's time for another Feature Friday and a Patreon exclusive reaction! This one is heavy, but I appreciated it nonetheless. For those who'd like to watch this along with me, I watched it on Netflix.
As always, thank you for your support here on Patreon. Until the next one, take care and stay golden :)
VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/yWmE6Nu_D_w
Original Movie: Grave of the Fireflies
Comments (13)
I love and hate this film. Love it for how much of a character study it is of lives immediately following our "war ending" Pearl Harbor retaliation, and hate it for turning a horrific story into art. This is one of those films I felt I only needed to see twice, but occasionally find myself revisiting it as a reminder to "be excellent to each other" and look out for those in need of a lift.
Before Halloween month ends (but honestly you can watch these anytime), I implore you to react to two films. I always recommend them to my friends and reactors. As a filmmaker and storyteller myself, I can't recommend these enough. 1st: 'Attack the Block.' It's about a group of teenagers fighting off an alien attack in their apartment block in South London. It stars John Boyega who plays Finn in the most recent Star Wars trilogy. It's his acting debut. It also stars Jodi Whittaker and Nick Frost 2nd: Journey to the West: Conquering the Demon. This is a Stephen Chow action-comedy, (the same guy who did Kung Fu Hustle.) It's about a Buddhist monk who travels around 9th century China fighting demons. It's loosely based on the 16th century novel of the same name by Wu Cheng'en. Both of these are two of the best films i've ever watched, and they don't get enough people reacting to them because they slip through the cracks.
Glad to have seen it after hearing about it for so long. Definitely an effective, moving film. One thing, were those empty shells dropping and setting the houses on fire or did the allies just drop burning ordinance to set fires in Japan?
Fire bombs. The USA realized that a lot of Japanese buildings were made of wood, so cheap fire bombs (essentially metal canisters filled with flammable fuel) were ridiculously effective - and caused horrific damages to the civilian population in an attempt to make Japan surrender - before they decided to drop Fat Man and Little Boy.
Grave of the fireflies is onenof those movies tjat everybody should see once. And only once. This was my third time. And it doesn't get easier.
Goosh it's a very raw movie. I have seen it multiple times before watching it again with you. It's a beautiful and very painful movie. One thing I think you may have missed with the aunt, was the night Seita and Setsuko arrived home late and the aunt was eating the scraped off the bottom rice when she was cleaning the pot? Seita made a comment about how that looked good. She didn't say there were any left overs for them to eat even though they wouldn't have been home for dinner. And when they were all eating together and Seita got seconds and she served him. They showed when she was getting food for herself and her family she was pulling up rice and veggies with the spoon. But when she filled his bowl, she was only taking the broth from the top. Even from the start she was favouring herself and her direct family over the young children that were also in her care. I will soon catch up on the Alien: Earth and Smile that I've fallen behind on~ Love what you do, Natalie. In a really not great year, your reactions have really helped~
Yeaaaaaahhhhhhh I'm not bout swirl into infinite depression but to each their own lol
I’m ready to be destroyed once more.
Yea. Not watching that again.
Absolutely not. You can’t make me
Oooh no thank you, im trying to enjoy my day lol
Happy Feature Friday Nat. Heard a lot about this one from the comments over the years but have never watched it. Guess I better prepare myself... A beautiful movie and a beautiful reaction Nat. Definitely hits hard, but the animation and the scoring were incredible. Thanks for giving us these exclusives on your Patreon. Enjoy your weekend Nat 💛
What's worse is that it's a true story (sans the ending with Seita dying). The movie is based on a semi-autobiographical book by Akiyuki Nosaka, and his experience of surviving the US firebombings of Japan, and attempting to take care of his little sister. If I remember correctly, everything pretty much happened as the movie presents it, except Nosaka obviously survived, but had to live with a tremendous amount of guilt from not keeping his sister alive, and wishing he had died as well, as what happens in his novel and the movie.