Impossible!! Impossible! Impossible?

Rating: 9/10 (30 October 2008)

No matter how many awards the movie had won or no matter how many movie fans had graded five stars, how could ever a story about guys who make livings by placing corpse in coffins entertain or even touch my heart? Impossible!!
A couple of weeks later, I went to a movie theater to see Oshii Mamoru's animation film; I had beautifully forgotten about this one. I was surprised to see a crowd of people, mainly housewives and old folks, making lines on weekdays, toward the ticket office #3 with a sign in front that read "Departures". Impossible!
I changed my mind and joined that line in order to see their disappointment. Frankly speaking, I was very exhausted. Um... very exhausted from two-hour laughter, running nose and excitement! Gee, how could ever...no, never mind.
Actually I kept having 'deja vu' while watching and then I found myself stepping into my childhood memory which had been sealed in deep mind, recalling someone who had departed with regret and sorry just like one of the characters in this film.
At the end roll, I could hardly believe my eyes to learn that the film was shot in his hometown, where I hadn't visited for years. Was "Departures" a stone letter from him? I wondered. Impossible?