
The film does not add anything to its own conversation or genre, and falls flat once it’s about to end and must declare some sort of conclusion.
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.
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Considering the runtime, I expected each scene to hit harder as opposed to a series of montages and vignettes.