Ichigo Ame

Chinese dialogue with Japanese subs - watching this really put my limited reading ability to the test. Because of the childlike dialogue, the text is relatively easy to read, follow and understand. We follow her through her mundane everyday life, her narration as she's using the house phone, bullied at school, goes to the shops with her grandparents. Before I knew it I was completely immersed in this little girl's world.

And then it happens. My hair was standing on ends. I felt physically sick. Her innocent dialogue throughout the scene absolutely broke my heart. Her questioning the reality of what happened, as there's nobody to ... guide her through her horriffic experience. All you as a viewer can do is watch her stumble through her innocent thoughts and conflicting feelings. Her mundane world slowly distorts to darkness. The familiar everyday, once a source of comfort, now becomes her personal horror.

The art and visuals are impeccable. The direction is stunning in every sense of the word, and the juxtaposition of her beautiful town and the horrifying nightmares that haunt her as a result of her trauma explores her inability to process her feelings incredibly well. I'm thoroughly impressed with this work. Would be wonderful to see this subbed properly for more people to experience this short.

Just to enter, i watched this shortfilm with a google translation, then it might be very wrong some interpretations, but visualy it shows basicly the same that i read, so maybe is not that incorrect.

Is a great representation of traumatic events and child abuse, that makes the child scared of touches, hiding and trying to find confort and something (Buda or her bunny).
I think the Strawberry candy might be sometimes blood, her blood and another times is the way that her grandpa makes her silent, with candy.

Is a great idependent movie made by a woman that show's in a inocent and disturbing way how that ... things happend and its horrible.