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I caught Look Back in the theater and ended up having a pretty negative response, probably out of my surprise for how thorny of a work it is. I'm lucky to have a friend who's much more into Fujimoto than me and helped me break down and understand what the movie was doing. After a very illuminating rewatch I now think it's an incredible piece of work and deeply inspiring (in ways I didn't even anticipate).
If you want to see my very wordy breakdown of what this movie has ended up meaning to me, it's available here! https://letterboxd.com/zanethedudeman/f ... ck-2024/1/
Today was jus one of those days where I woke up like "I gotta make an AMV, I gotta make an AMV". In trying to think of a song that was appropriately pained but loving to pair with this anime, the lyric "Don't you see how you hurt me baby, then I hurt you too, and we both get, so blue" came to my mind, and then the next like 5 hours of my life was decided.
In some ways I feel guilty that I defanged certain elements of the original work, but AMVs are all about reinterpretation and I guess this pairing from the getgo was always going to be something a lil warmer and sweeter.
I hope you enjoy it, and shoutout David Ball and his incredible unpublished novel The Surprise You See Coming for turning me onto this beautiful piece of music.
Love Letter [Look Back AMV]
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