I was deeply moved

Rating: 9/10 (25 February 2011)

If i told you to watch a subtitled film about a newly unemployed cellist who takes a job preparing the dead for funerals you would probably tell me to get lost! If you did you couldn't be more wrong. Departures is a deeply moving movie , unlike anything i have ever seen before. Wonderfully acted by Masahiro Motoki and Ryoko Hirosue , this film goes into a world that most people have never seen before. In Japan , when a loved one dies , some people have the bodies uncoffined. A process where the whole family watched an encoffiner clean , position , dress and put make up on the one who has died. All this is done in a very beautiful and tasteful way. One of the main reasons why i can relate to this film is that the lead character has a father who abandoned him at a young age and the next time he heard from him was when he was told he had dies. That is exactly my situation , and because of that i found the final 15 minutes extremely moving . This wont be for everyone because a lot of people wont have the patience to get to the end but if you do you will not regret it.
If i told you to watch a subtitled film about a newly unemployed cellist who takes a job preparing the dead for funerals you would probably tell me to get lost! If you did you couldn't be more wrong. Departures is a deeply moving movie , unlike anything i have ever seen before.
Wonderfully acted by Masahiro Motoki and Ryoko Hirosue , this film goes into a world that most people have never seen before. In Japan , when a loved one dies , some people have the bodies uncoffined. A process where the whole family watched an encoffiner clean , position , dress and put make up on the one who has died. All this is done in a very beautiful and tasteful way.
One of the main reasons why i can relate to this film is that the lead character has a father who abandoned him at a young age and the next time he heard from him was when he was told he had dies. That is exactly my situation , and because of that i found the final 15 minutes extremely moving . This wont be for everyone because a lot of people wont have the patience to get to the end but if you do you will not regret it.