tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39784861147659501.post4177140611239558687..comments2011-04-08T06:05:19.329-07:00Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210577951651061702noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39784861147659501.post-50177586586715641902011-04-08T06:05:19.329-07:002011-04-08T06:05:19.329-07:00Just wanted to say - I have to agree with Alejandro! I loved the movie, but felt really sad about the direction the town was heading in.<br /><br />It highlights the sad fact that as culture and attitudes change, the old is sometimes left behind. I felt so sorry for that boy&#39;s grandfather as he burnt the paper!! It makes me feel so sad seeing how the old and new sometimes just can&#39;t get along well :(<br /><br />I have to say I love Nanami Sakuraba&#39;s acting in it though: &quot;MOOUU... CHIISANA KOE!!&quot; hehe.kimmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14759747485457218146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39784861147659501.post-77692937563629945042010-12-22T05:17:27.111-08:002010-12-22T05:17:27.111-08:00Hey Justin, finally saw the movie!<br /><br />I agree and disagree in your remark that this is an overtly positive movie...it is in the fact that they manage to do what they strove for, but we just have to take a look at the whole background they are painting: a desolate town where no one but old people and high-schoolers live, a dead city that needs to be &quot;reborn&quot;. Even when they manage to call the attention from the media, the film ends without giving us a proper &quot;ending&quot;, have they manage to make the other people think that Shodo is fun? have they manage to help the city to be reborn? <br /><br />What I found as one flaw that comes over and over again in the contemporary Japanese movies is the excessive melodrama, and not in the old sense of melodrama where the world was divided in good and bad, but in the tear-jerker-kind-of-melodrama. I mean, it&#39;s good and it&#39;s bad, it can be cathartic but also can be boring, depending on the moment....<br /><br />All and all I found the movie interesting and funny in many parts, and I love the character of the girl who has to leave for another city, she&#39;s just great ;) <br /><br />Good review!<br /><br />Alejandro.alejandrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00882146428373219843noreply@blogger.com