MASTERPIECE is not enough to describe this movie

Rating: 10/10 (25 July 2012)

When i first saw this movie i did not know what to expect. I thought, here goes another anime that will take out 2 hours of my life. However i discovered a masterpiece, a movie that even after 2 years and more than 18 time played i could not take out of my mind.
The characters are so pure, the story so real, the art so genuine that i instantaneously fell in love. Happy ending or not does not matter, it is what it is: The 8th wonder of the world.
I have watched thousands of movies but none have ever touched me like this one. I recommended it to everyone i know and everyone either cried out of sadness or out of love for Takahata.
Grave of the fireflies is more than a story or a message or an ending. The characters are real, the feelings are there, the war is present, the sadness all around. You will laugh and cry at the same time and you will still wish you could change the story every time you see it. The good news is, you can. All around us are stories like this that want to be found, we just have to look for them.
I hope one day ET will learn from it what the human race couldn't.