You will become this story. It is alive.

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 2004)

This is one of the best storylines I have seen yet, along with the special effects used to tell a story, not just cover up it has none like so many others.
It's a love story about forgetting the past but wanting to remember the good parts, like most of us do. I certainly remember the good moments more than the bad, and this film made me remember a lot about being alive and taking risks.
At the end of this scifi love drama comes a happy moment out of honesty, and being able to really show how you feel about someone. As the film ended I went outside and saw that the cherry trees were swirling pink-white petals in little jets around the street and the sun was just rising. That is a once in a lifetime event, but if you look hard enough you'll see more of them.
American Beauty and other films let you in on little secrets of 4th dimensional beauty, like the swirling bag, or in Donnie Darko so many visual elements through space-time that make you ponder your existence.
It's nothing I thought it would be, and everything I'd hope it would be. This film has really pushed me forward in film making theory and geared me away from muscle cars, explosions, and hot bikini 'chicks'. This reminds me of points in 'Lost in Translation' and 'Great Expectations'. More films should take on epic storytelling like this, because the daily doldrum of movie making is costing more and more every year and producing ever more rotten things.
Watch this film.