DCist: Popcorn & Candy: Rain of Fire

ohkate

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:03:21 -0500

most depressing cartoon movie EVER. so unlike all of studio ghibli's other movies. very good but I think a small part of my soul is still depressed because of this movie.

cyrinaldi

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:23:20 -0500

Truly, "a generation of nuclear giants but moral midgets."

monkeyrotica

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:58:16 -0500

The grim part is that there actually were Japanese WWII veterans, homeless, dying of malnutrition and neglect in the Tokyo subways in the 1950s, just when the economy was ramping up. Compare that to all the Vietnam vets and now the Iraq war vets living on the periphery and dying in the shadows, the film becomes painfully universal. The final image could be any bustling metropolis rising from its ashes and hastening to forget its past.

cyrinaldi

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:40:59 -0500

Buckets of awesome.

monkeyrotica

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:32:05 -0500

LOVE Grave of the Fireflies, and not just because my mom had to live through that $h!t. But it really must be seen with something lighter, like My Neighbor Totoro, to take some of the pain away. Sad state of affairs when cartoons are more poignant than the average tired piece of pooped out Hollywood filth.