I have to say that I feel bad fo the producers, unless they were going for a minimalistic film this just feels to me like a nice big plot confined to a low budget and bad art. I feel like they wanted to do something but they didn't have the time or money, and thus for me the feeling of a true story I could care about was lost.
It felt very rushed and when the sad moments lasted only seconds I would start to cry only to be carted off to another scene so they could fit them all in the short amount of time they had. I couldn't really care about the characters because I couldn't connect, they seemed very flat and only meant to fit into their specific parts for the movie, not free thinking characters who would later surprise me, and they didn't. The unexpected became mundane when the art became very moe and big eyed at all the wrong times.
It invalidated itself, which is sad because it had some potential.
All in all a good plot ruined by pretty much everything else...
