So Many Tears

Rating: 10/10 (1 January 2015)

I don't cry when I watch movies. Very rarely when I watch something will a tear spring up, and it usually only lasts a second. The final half hour of this film tears were streaming down my face. It's so good at pulling on your heart strings. You love the characters, you're there with them, so watching both of them fail to carry on, especially after all the older brother has done, hurts. That being said, I recommend this film to anyone and everyone. It is one of the most amazing anti-war films I've ever seen and it impacts you even more so because it's animated in the gentle Studio Ghibli art style. A beautiful film, something I was sad to find isn't more openly distributed. I was luckily able to find it at an awesome library in town.