How did you feel after watching grave of the fireflies?
| I was hoping it would make me cry but it didn't even make me sad. |
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| I was unaffected, or maybe slightly annoyed. It was mostly Seita's fault, his actions were ridiculous. My grandma was 10 during WW2 and she had to take care of her little sister and she did better job than he did. 14 years old is already old enough to realize consequences of his actions and be responsible, especially when the situation calls for it. His aunt told him to go and help to extinguish the fires, since he didn't have work or school, but nah, he rather fooled around like a kid. I think she would be nicer to them, if he wasn't just mooching of her and her family. He didn't even help around house or anything. After Setsuko told him she feels sick, it took him eternity to take her to the doctor. After she started to be seriously weak, he should just drop her at the aunt's house, they wouldn't let her starve to death as he did. He didn't have to apologize, he didn't have to talk to them, he could just leave her there and disappear, if it was too much for his pride to apologize. But nah, he rather left her die and then went somewhere to die too. I just can't bring myself to sympathize with him. And usually I am very sensitive and fast to cry during any sad story. Also, the fact that it was shown right away in the beginning of the movie that they are dead made the ending kinda underwhelming. My least favorite Ghibli movie, I was not impressed at all. It would have much more impact if the director told his story as it really happened, when he wanted to apologize to his sister. |
| I watched this when I was 13 or something. didn't even make me sad. I heard that this anime is very emotionally devastating and so I watched it. I'm not a fan of Ghibli in particular, but I liked many of their works and had high expectations for this movie as a whole. Turns out MC was so stupid (can't even bother to remember his name), I felt frustrated because I wasted a lot of time on this horrible movie. |
| "Just because I’ve gotten weaker, it doesn’t mean that you got stronger, right?" - Accelerator |
| The story is sad, but the movie was too boring and I can't really get myself to like Ghibli art. |
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| i cried while watching bec i knowand feel the pain and suffering through poverty, when i was still in elementary me and my younger sister had to eat only once a day and if were lucky we get to eat 3 times a day with milo as our main dish (well to us at that time milo + rice = heaven). and i connected to the desperation seita showed when he withraw his mom's money just to feed his sister. and it made me remember the time where i used to find scraps of metal and bottles and sell them to the junkyard just to earn money for food. im just thankful that our family is financially stable now bec of our cooperation as a family and my parents hard work and sacrifice |
| Yeah I cried, pretty hard in fact. |
| "Even if there isn't a God or meaning behind life. That doesn't mean you can't create your own meaning and make the best out of life." |
| I did... That was more depressing than I expected. |
| no but i wanted to kill the auntie ._______. |
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| Well, i heard war stories all the time, so it didnt made me cry, but it was a bit sad. I know the feeling of a father in an army far from home..., and im now the older brother in a ship far from home... |
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| I teared up at the end, when Seita was trying to feed Setsuko. I was officially crying when he said "She never woke up". I didn't really like Setsuko because of her constant crying, but that scene really touched my heart. |
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| Going in I expected something more dramatic from all the things I've heard. It was much slower paced and I gotta say half of the shit felt intentionally brought on for the sake of the narrative rather then it developing organically. It was sad yes but more melancholic and depressing instead of heartbreaking. |
| Not at all. When the movie ended my only feeling was "Wait, that's it???" |
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| I cried: 1-During the movie. 2-At the end of the movie. 3-While reading analysis of the movie. |
| It didn't effect me at all because Setsuko was annoying. |
| Honstly it was a sad movie but i didn't cried while watching it , but at the end i dunno what's happened i just start to shed a tears am not even sure if it's because of the movie or I just want to cry a little . |
| smh I actually cried a few times when it was getting towards the end. Also got a little teary eyed when the little sister cried at night from not having her mother.. Smh...I didn't think this movie was going to be THAT depressing. But Seita, despite how wrong or dumb that we may see him in our eyes, he did the best he could for his sister. All he wanted to do was take care of her and live happy. Smh here comes the water works again :'() |
| This was the most depressing thing I've ever seen....Clannad AS fucked me up but this was just awful |
| No, I didn't but the thing is that I didnt feel like laughing or anything like that either, for almost a week... I think I forgot the meaning of "smile" and "happiness". This movie was so depressing. Good, but depressing.... |
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| Not after, but during some key moments. Mostly when the kid acting tough broke down. |
| I didn't even feel sad. I just thought it was too tragic, like reading that children in Africa die from starvation. I felt sorry for Setsuko, she couldn't choose where to be born or her relatives. She was born in the wrong country at the wrong time, and also had a brother who didn't know what was the best for her. |
| When Setsuko offered her brother dirt as food it just completely broke me, I never cried so much in my life, and I'm not even exaggerating |
| I stumbled across this movie randomly when I was watching Tv when I was younger. I watched through the whole thing and then just cried for a few minutes straight after the film finished. |
Yorokobe Shounen~!  |
| Honestly, I was bawling after this movie was over. About 20 minutes before the sister died, I kind of had a feeling she wasn't going to live till the end of the movie, but I still was bawling. When she was sucking on marbles like they were candy... This movie is absolutely depressing, but so real at the same time. |
baylilyJun 27, 2019 11:48 AM
| Yeah, four times in a row, and one more while cleaning the tears. |
| Yeah, I did. Kind of hard not to when you realize this kind of stuff really happened to people |
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| No but my sister did although she's pretty sensitive |
| MEA·MENTVLA·INGENS·EST |
| I watched it like five years ago and I cried a lot. This is one of the movies I can't see again, is so... sad and awful (in a good way). |
| I was just glad that crap was over with. If felt so blatantly manipulative that it was disgusting. |
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