State of Art,

Rating: 10/10 (4 September 2000)

I've come to watch this movie not on purpose. So I hadn't had any preconception or vague information at least. What I felt while I watch this movie was strong involvement itself. As many other Japanese movies, the pace of this one is seems to be controlled rather slow to make a kind of calm and meditating impression. That made me very relaxed, and I could sip the story scene by scene. The story ,supported by a classic plot of tragedy, was so touching I could see a male person keeping himself from weeping, and I was almost dropping tears. That sweet character Setsko ,who would remind anybody of their own little sister or daughter, was banging my heart to see a human being among all those -real- things in the war. And her guardian Seita would easily make an audience identify himself with him, I believe. That should be the cause of involvement and delivers the heart-breaking sorrow.