I read a bit and few of reviews and posts about the recent anime film I watched, Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai (I want to eat your pancreas). A lot of them are dissatisfied with the movie while some complimented and said that they cried watching the movie. Odd enough, I have doubt if ever I cried when the girl died. Did I just not understood the film or was I too spoiled much that her death never moved me to tears. Or was I just too immature to understand what happened?
I get it that she was afraid of dying in the first place, that she really was just putting a brave and cheerful face to the Haruki and her friends. When she's alone she either cry her worry away or just dance it off.
But I don't know why, I just couldn't cry about it. People in their comments said that the film lacked connection with the audience and that the story was too face paced. The emotional investment that the audience should feel wasn't fully matured when the story ended. I can agree with that but I don't know, I got this feeling that it seems enough.
Was my prior knowledge about book, The Little Prince, killed my emotion for the film? I find the film to be worth watching as well as a very amazing thing to have watched. It is a very beautiful piece and yet I lack tears to show it. Maybe I shouldn't have connected the plot of the film with the book of Saint-Exupery. The Little Prince book has quite an amazing story to it. Let alone a children story that is most beautiful even if read by any age. The story ended with the prince going away and yet, I'm satisfied. He went back to his rose, one of the thousands in the world.
Going back to the movie, was I not in love with the heroine? Or rather was my emotional connection with her cut right from the start and from the reminders that her death is foretold. Or rather say in love, did I just not understand the movie at all?
I don't want to change any of what had happened. Her dying is just a part of it, or perhaps the author did not want the girl to suffer more? I can imagine what she might have been through when she died but.. her picture of being and cheerful just doesn't make sense of what I had in my mind. She shouldn't be worrying instead she must've been happy when that moment happened.
Was it the same with The Little Prince? He accepted his death through and through, and when the pilot found him, he was sad and yet ironically, prince was happy.
To be honest, I'm quite amaze that her bucket list got completed as well as what she had told Haruki. Right even in the end and the after credits.
As I commented on one of the comments in a video with a clip on this anime, "It is a tragic story but not a sad one," or something like that.
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