Finally, after all these weeks, I’ve watched this film. This was… I want to put here an extraordinary adjective, to fully deliver my opinion, but I’m speechless. In short — I’m in awe. Okay, it’s not the greatest film in history, but it’s definitely worth a shot. This is a little crevice through which we can glance into other people’s lives. (A common style in Japanese cinematography) Everything’s so truthful and believable, sometimes you catch yourself thinking “is it a documentary?”, but in a good way.
It’s a film about death and birth. About life. About parting ways and finding a new one. About old age. About love
There are some refrains. The most meaningful and obvious is — the sea. We saw it as a storming, raging beast, as well as a peaceful and happy creature.
“The sea, it’s alive” — said the boy (Kaito)
Alongside the main character we go from being frightened by this unpredictable organism (it all starts with death, with a corpse on the shore and a scared boy) to accepting the nature of the ocean and falling in love with the waves.
The sea is the visualisation of life. It is the life itself. Life is not the road, like we are used to imagining, it’s the vast, boundless ocean, with so many choices and opportunities.
Death and birth can’t exist without each other. After break up there is love, and after birth there’s death. In this movie death is not something to be afraid of, it’s a vital part of human life, which we should accept and move on, world doesn’t stop to grieve.
There is depicted warm and accepting family relationship (as well as troubled, but that’s not unusual). The more heartbreaking it gets, when the time comes
The film also encompasses the subject of following your instincts, your nature, your heart. Sex, love, swimming — whatever. “You want to do it — do it”
Genre is — life. There’s a subtle colour of a detective movie, and a family drama, and even a melodrama.
A lot of scenery shots, the nature overall: the sea, the trees, the grass, the lights and shadows. The state of human soul and the state of environment correspond.
Finally, after all these weeks, I’ve watched this film. This was… I want to put here an extraordinary adjective, to fully deliver my opinion, but I’m speechless. In short — I’m in awe. Okay, it’s not the greatest film in history, but it’s definitely worth a shot. This is a little crevice through which we can glance into other people’s lives. (A common style in Japanese cinematography) Everything’s so truthful and believable, sometimes you catch yourself thinking “is it a documentary?”, but in a good way.
It’s a film about death and birth. About life. About parting ways and finding a new one. About old age. About love
There are some refrains. The most meaningful and obvious is — the sea. We saw it as a storming, raging beast, as well as a peaceful and happy creature.
“The sea, it’s alive” — said the boy (Kaito)
Alongside the main character we go from being frightened by this unpredictable organism (it all starts with death, with a corpse on the shore and a scared boy) to accepting the nature of the ocean and falling in love with the waves.
The sea is the visualisation of life. It is the life itself. Life is not the road, like we are used to imagining, it’s the vast, boundless ocean, with so many choices and opportunities.
Death and birth can’t exist without each other. After break up there is love, and after birth there’s death. In this movie death is not something to be afraid of, it’s a vital part of human life, which we should accept and move on, world doesn’t stop to grieve.
There is depicted warm and accepting family relationship (as well as troubled, but that’s not unusual). The more heartbreaking it gets, when the time comes
The film also encompasses the subject of following your instincts, your nature, your heart. Sex, love, swimming — whatever. “You want to do it — do it”
Genre is — life. There’s a subtle colour of a detective movie, and a family drama, and even a melodrama.
A lot of scenery shots, the nature overall: the sea, the trees, the grass, the lights and shadows. The state of human soul and the state of environment correspond.
