[ SECRET POST #2328 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2328 ⌋

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Comments

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Sounds like someone needs to watch the best Ghibli movie of them all: Only Yesterday.

[(Anonymous)]

Gawd I love this movie but it fucked with my head and emotions so much cause I related to the main character SO MUCH. I'm about to be 27 and am single. I have a relatively decent job and support myself. However I HATE feeling like there's something wrong with me because I'm this old and still single, and it seemed like the main character went through the same thing, "why arent you married, when are you going to get married" blah blah. And I didn't really like the fact that her happiness in the movie seemed to come from the guy she met. He was awesome but I would have liked it better if she was happy on her own.

I dunno maybe I missed the point of the movie completely.

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I see your point, and totally understand your reaction. I must admit that's not my read of Taeko's decision at all.

I feel like the movie's resolution comes when she seizes her future for herself, and that's the lesson to be learned. It's nice that she gets a boyfriend out of the deal, but the point is not that what she needed all along was a boyfriend, but rather that life is full of second and third chances, if you're daring enough to take them.

[(Anonymous)]

I do like this take and can certainly see how it feeds into the movie. I guess for me it's harder to accept it because we don't really know anything about Taeko's current life, like how and why she ended up at the job she has or why exactly she never found a long term relationship. I enjoyed the movie but it was a bit frustrating for me how they centered so much around her life when she was very young. I was expecting it to give scenes of her life throughout her years instead of just her elementary years. I would have liked it better had it elaborated more why she was unhappy with her current lifestyle.