plushoo wrote:What happens in Grave of the Fireflies, anyway? I've heard that it's a really good movie.
It is an animated World War II film by Studio Ghibli (which they made at the same time as
My Neighbor Totoro).
The premises centers around two people, a brother and sister, whose father is an admiral in the Japanese Navy and their mother, who is now taking care of them.
After an Allied attack on their village, the two find themselves in many different situations, trying to survive in a land being torn apart by war.
That's the basic premise, without giving anything away.
It is perhaps the saddest, most tragic film ever created. I, myself, have only seen it three times, once on cable and twice on DVD. Since then, I have not watched it again -- not because it wasn't a good film, but that it is a very sorrowful film, one that is a true masterpiece but weighs you down emotionally every time you see it.
It is definitely worth watching, and highly recommended.
