introduction to grave of the fireflies 1988
I am writing my review of Grave of the Fireflies after watching it for the first time in my life, and I do not think I am ever ready to experience this feeling of having my heart squeezed again, but I decided to write my vision with that feeling, as it motivates me to do so.
This movie will make you curse all wars, even those fought by your country, even for the sake of freedom. It is the people who suffer the scourge of war, and civilians become the victims, and children suffer and suffer from its effects. Screw all wars unless they are for the protection of all humanity.
Do the governments of countries suffer from some deficiency, so that they force their sons, children, elderly, women and men to this terrible suffering? Is there a reason that prompts you to operate killing machines to take human lives? Do you see the danger facing you so that you decide to wage the accursed war?
I will tell you something, it is your ambitions and your pride that drives you to war, it is your sense of power and the ability to annihilate others, and the tax is paid by the peoples who want to live in peace, and it is paid by children who do not even understand the meaning of war, so screw you too.
The psychological pain that I felt after seeing the grave of the fireflies cannot be compared to physical pain at all. The psychological pain penetrates every part of you, kills your feelings and turns off your heartbeat. The suffering of these two children is a message to all human beings, so that they force their governments to stop this so-called filth. During war, they hide behind fortified walls stained only by the blood of innocents.
All kinds of pain and suffering, deprivation, and fear of fate were embodied in the grave of the fireflies. I even screamed at the moment of the child’s death to wake up everyone in my house. No pain swept through my soul as it had happened at that time. I imagined myself in the place of her brother who had nothing to save her, and I found that the best thing to do was her time is not to wait a moment in this hateful world.
Why do people not stand in solidarity against their governments, so that they know that our destinies are in our hands and not a toy that they decide when to play with and when to throw away? Let it be a call to all humanity, yes and why not? Let us set a day known to all the people of the world, in which everyone will come out in front of their homes, and let us raise one banner bearing the phrase “Stop all wars immediately.” The tyranny of governments must stop, because the earth is on its way to annihilation, and there will be no human beings left. This is a vision I see clearly now.
It is no wonder today that wars have become everywhere, but give yourself a chance and imagine your children after your death, for example, what they will do or suffer during the war. Do you realize the amount of terror, pain and suffering that will inevitably befall them? Therefore, we must protect our children from exposure to this situation. There is no other solution in my opinion other than stopping the wars, and this will only happen with the will of peoples of all colors.
Grave of the Fireflies is undisputedly the best animated film ever, and deserves to be seen by every human being on the face of the earth, to realize the magnitude of the coming disaster.
A note that must be taken seriously: No heart patient is allowed to watch it. Let someone tell it to you, as this is certainly better.
Events and details of the movie Grave of the Fireflies
Disclaimer: Grave of the Fireflies is based on a true story and directed by the creative Isao Takahata.
The first creative scene is when you see a child sitting on the ground, in a very miserable condition, and people pass by him, wondering if he is dead. Then he leans over and falls to the ground while saying Setsuko’s name. Then one of the cleaning workers comes to examine him, and finds that he is dead, so he takes the candy box next to him to throw it away. far away, and ash falls from it, then suddenly we find a little girl materializing, with bright fireflies around her, and she looks at that child and almost moves towards him with passion, but a hand stops her and she looks at its owner to find that it is that child, so he gives her a box of candy and takes her hand and they walk to board one of the trains, and while They sit quietly, watching luminous swarms in the sky, until the light fills the entire scene and moves to another scene.
The film begins with a boy named Seita and his sister Setsuko living in Japan with their mother, during World War II.
It was one of the usual raids and they were about to leave their home for the shelter. When their mother preceded them there, the child found himself and his sister trapped in the middle of the raid and bombing, and he did not know where to go, especially when he saw the houses around him burning, and people running in every direction, so he started running randomly until he got a little far away, when the raid subsided and the rain began to fall.
Seita decided to return, but he was surprised by burning houses and dead people everywhere, until they met one of their neighbors who told him that his mother had been injured. He went to see her and found that she had almost died. He returned to his sister in confusion and pain, and when she asked him about their mother, he told her that she had been injured. She will recover quickly, and she is in a hospital near their aunt who they will go to. She seemed sad and unconvinced, as if she sensed what happened to her mother, and she told him that she wanted to see her, but he told her that it was too late, and he became silent after that, and she began to cry, so he tried to distract her, but to no avail.
Seita and Setsuko went to their aunt and he did not tell her at first about his mother’s death, as he did not want his sister Setsuko to know about it. Then he quickly told her after that, so she asked him to write to his father to tell him about it.
Seita tried to spend a good time with his sister, Setsuko. They had fun for a while and followed the bright fireflies,They also went to the sea, He gave her sweets that she loved, and she was very happy about that.
All Seita wanted was to make his little sister happy, and to push away any thought that might make her sad. It was a great feeling from a child turning into a man early, and the memories of the home with his mother and the security they lived in did not leave his imagination, until things began to change little by little, as their aunt began When he asked him why he wasn't working, she also started selling their mother's things in exchange for food, which angered and saddened Setsuko a lot. She was still unaware of their mother's death. The cruelty had manifested itself in their aunt when she decided that they would eat alone, and that this would be their share in exchange for the sale. Their mother's things, and I asked Seita to write to his relatives on the mother's side, but he did not know their address.
Seita bought cooking equipment, and he actually started cooking their meals for himself and his sister. He also bought supplies for him and his sister, but they were few and barely enough for them. And in one of the scenes we see something very touching. His sister wanted to eat, so he gave her a box of candy, and it was in it. Sticky pieces of candy and some crumbs, so she ate the crumbs and left the healthy pieces for another time. They had begun to economize on their consumption of food in all its forms.
However, their aunt was always harsh on them with words, and told them that they were useless, and Setsuko had begun to hate living with their aunt, and when she once told them to go live in the cave next to their village, it seemed to Sieta that perhaps this would be the solution, To get rid of their aunt's harsh words and behavior towards them, and began to prepare what was necessary to leave, and to make this cave their permanent home.
What was strange and sad was that their aunt did not care where they were going, as if she was waiting for that moment, as if her heart was made of stone.
Despite this, Seita did not care about this, and he and his sister left for the cave and settled in it, but it was dark at night, so they began to catch the bright fireflies so that they would illuminate the place for them. The idea succeeded, but it did not last long because the fireflies were dying quickly, and they were Setsuko digs a grave for them and buries them in the morning, and she tells Seita that she is doing this because she learned from their aunt that their mother is dead and in her grave now. Then Seita could not prevent his tears from flowing.
He was definitely feeling pain and brokenness, but he quickly regained his composure and told her that they would visit her grave soon. Then the time came when there was nothing left to exchange for food, so he asked one of the farmers to give him food. He replied that he had nothing but what he could eat, and advised him to return to his aunt, so he thanked him. Then he told him that he would ask someone else, when suddenly one of the enemy planes attacked them, so he and his sister fell to the ground. When the plane crossed, he found in front of him a few tomatoes on the trees, so he picked them and ate part of them with his sister, then he took the rest with him. Hunger had made him He steals and doesn't care.
The innocent Setsuko began to suffer from diarrhea, and seita was trying to steal food again, until the farmer who was stealing his land caught him one time, and he discovered the cave where the food was kept, and he saw his sister as well, and Seita begged him to leave him for the sake of his sick sister, but he was merciless. So he took him to the police station, but the policeman was wise enough to leave the little boy, after seeing his miserable appearance and the seeming suffering, so that Seita came out of the police station and found his sister waiting for him. She ran up to him and hugged him, and he began to cry intensely. Then she was The painful moment when she asked him whether he was injured or not and whether she should bring him a doctor. At this moment, she was his mother, trying to reassure him and take care of him, and this is what made him suffer greatly, and then he embraced her in his arms with great love.
Setsuko's illness began to increase, and her brother was trying to provide food and heat for her in any way possible, and this prompted him to rob houses, so he would risk himself and enter houses during plane bombings, to take what they needed of food, clothes, and towels, until he returned one time and He found his sister lying on the grass, her innocent face pale, and he was in a state of true terror, He did not believe or expect her death.
The most painful ending among the films
The poor man carried his decrepit sister in his arms and took her back to the cave. On his way, he stopped and fed her a piece of ice and said to her, “What do you want to eat?” She answered him with an innocent childishness that she wanted meat, fish, and fruit dessert. He told her that he would withdraw his mother’s money that was in the bank and buy something. She has everything she wants, and she said to him while crying that she did not want anything, and that she only wanted him by her side and for him to never leave her, so he promised her that , so she looked at him in comfort, then sighed and fell asleep in his arms.
It was a heart-wrenching scene, and it makes you wish you were there with them to help them.
Seita went to the bank to withdraw the money that his mother had saved, only to hear that his country, Japan, had surrendered, And the war is over , and that the naval fleet in which his father worked had been completely destroyed. He screamed like a madman in condemnation, and ran out of the bank in a terrible state of hysteria, anger, and sadness. And also fear.
He walked on the way back to his sister in the cave, repeating, “My mother died, and now my father is dead.” Despair had begun to seep into him, and when he reached the cave, he found his sister lying on the ground, with something in her mouth to chew. She had begun to become delirious and had reached the stage of death, and when He asked her what was in her mouth, but she did not answer. He extended his hand and took it out to find that it was a piece of marble, and when he tried to take food out of his bag for her, he was surprised by her holding a small rock and telling him, “They are rice balls. I made them for you, please take one.” Here his tears fell and he began to realize. He tried to feed her a piece of watermelon, and she thanked him. She fell asleep after that and never woke up.
This scene will definitely make you shake and collapse, and you will no longer find yourself wanting for anything.
Night came and Seita lay down next to his sister, holding her in his arms with sadness that filled his entire being, and in the morning he bought what was needed to burn her body. The scene at that time seemed strange, because the war had ended and life had returned to normal, and the people around him were practicing what they had missed during the accursed war, while He is preparing to cremate his sister Setsuko.
In complete creativity and unnatural pain sweeping the soul, the memories of Setsuko and her running and playing around the place, her innocent laughter that shakes even hardened hearts, her words with her brother, and her innocent, childish looks that made everyone relate to her and love her as if she were your daughter or sister, were displayed.
Seita prepared to burn his sister's body, which was inside a coffin, and put all her belongings in it. He lit the fire and sat next to it, until night fell while he lay looking at the sky and the bright fireflies around him.
The next morning he took his sister's ashes, put them in her candy box, and returned to the village, but he never returned to the cave.
Words to all humanity
Shame on you, humanity, for seeing these moments in the lives of children, and not intervening until you save your children and your families. It is an incredible thing to see war everywhere destroying everything that is green and innocent. You are not far from this effect. It will inevitably affect you sooner or later. You and your family will become the next victim one day.
Let's say that the music in this movie completely expresses the event. It is possible to close your eyes and listen, then easily guess what is happening, and its effect on emotions is beyond imagination, so it is truly one of the creations before us from that movie.
At the beginning of the movie, we saw the souls of the two children meeting and living quietly and without fear. I think that was an indication of how bad the real world is, how cruel and brutal it is, and that they are now enjoying tranquility in the other world.
Something caught my eye in the movie and I wondered about it: Why did Seita not withdraw his mother’s money immediately after her death, or at least after he ran out of what he was bartering for? He had to take that step quickly, but in my opinion he did not expect the acceleration of events, and that his sister would not tolerate what was happening to her for long. Or he first wanted to consume what he owned and barter with it, so that he would not exhaust that money quickly if he withdrew it.
There is a saying that adversity makes men, and I certainly saw this saying in Grave of the Fireflies. Despite the death of Seita's mother, the loss of his home, and the abandonment of his cruel aunt, he now endured many things for the sake of his sister Setsuko, and was the blessing of a brother to her until she became ill and died.
Sickness and death are not in the hands of anyone but God, and all human beings will die, but we must know the reasons that led to that, and the circumstances surrounding those reasons. It is difficult to accept the idea of two children dying alone, without anyone extending a helping hand to them, or even caring about what is happening with them. This is considered a waste of the good human nature that God created in us.
The movie as a whole teaches us how to be kind to each other, how to care for each other, how to stand together against the scourges of wars and diseases, and other scourges, but it teaches us this with extreme harshness until we experience the pain resulting from neglecting these qualities, so we must pull ourselves together and begin. A new stage that we consider a tribute to all those we lost in previous eras, and with which we renew hope for future generations so that they may live in mercy, peace and love.
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