## Thoughts - Movie is about saying goodbye - Being acquired, didn't pass it onto a successor - Pay attention to metaphors ### Rating ### Personal Significance ### Themes - Acceptance of reality - Mahito went from being haunted by mom's death, to being accepting of willingly going back into future - The answer to moving on is not to create a fantasy but to come back to the real world - How will you live? Will you remember or will you not? - Japanese history - World was peaceful and was purely Japanese until imperialism and violence was used to govern - Ended up crumbling because no one was able to rule it without malice - The world - Inspiration to do good in the world - The world is Ghibli, and even though it won't be the same, he wants the kept block to be remembered - Uncle was so focused on trying to find a successor, but then all of a sudden king bird strikes and it all goes to shit anyways - Is this related to uncertainty? - Relation to miyazaki - Mom was bed-ridden ? - Moved to countryside at an early age due to WW2 - Symbolism - Warawara is trying to prematurely bring fantasy to real world - Death - Observing death - pelican, warawara etc - Change - People continue to say, that's it? They go back and they leave? Yes. - Escapism - We should not stay in these fantasy worlds, they should only help us reframe with acceptance - Knowing how to balance this creative pursuit, or even work as a whole, with life itself - PTSD - Being smothered by pelicans and guts was like mom being smothered in flames - Wood crumbling was like mom - Everything is connected ### Memorable Scenes - Choosing to hold onto the door and go back - Honestly second ghibli film I've watched so everything surreal was super novel and fun to watch - During the warawara scenes when ate regie would get my attention and say that's literally me 💀 ### What I enjoyed - Themes - symbolism is always fun to analyze B) - The added nuances when putting miyazaki's life and situation into context ### What I disliked - ### Similar