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Speaking of Miyazaki, I watched the Grave of the Fireflies when I was a child, and it was a devastating experience. (For those who haven't seen, it's a story of

Speaking of Miyazaki, I watched the Grave of the Fireflies when I was a child, and it was a devastating experience. (For those who haven't seen, it's a story of a brother and sister in Japan at the end of WWII.) It was as if I myself had lived through (and perhaps died in) a war. I watched it one more time in my life, but I cannot even write about it without tears coming to my eyes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies Also, one of my childhood books was When the Wind Blows. (For those who haven't read it, it's a story of an old British couple going through the aftermath of a nuclear attack.) Similarly traumatizing. I suppose my parents meant to educate me about the horrors of war, but at such a young age (pre-teen, maybe around ten years old) my reading experience was so powerful that it felt like I lived through it. Scenes from that book still haunt me sometimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(comics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(comics)

tehnub 5y ago
Not that you explicitly said otherwise, but I just want to point out that Grave of the Fireflies was written and directed by Isao Takahata (RIP), who was a co-founder of Studio Ghibli and frequent collaborator with Miyazaki.
hinkley 5y ago
I told the kids they aren’t allowed to watch that until they’re old enough to drink. Mostly so they can drink immediately afterward. That’s one of hose movies you really only need to see once, like Schindler’s List.
m463 5y ago
As a kid I was traumatized by War of the Gargantuas. I just remember a part where one of the monsters reaches into a building, eats a woman and spits out a dress + bones. Now sort of amusingly, I don't want to watch the movie again for a different reason. It's because my memory of it is entirely sort of a "native memory" going back that many years.

tehnub 5y ago

Not that you explicitly said otherwise, but I just want to point out that Grave of the Fireflies was written and directed by Isao Takahata (RIP), who was a co-founder of Studio Ghibli and frequent collaborator with Miyazaki.

hinkley 5y ago

I told the kids they aren’t allowed to watch that until they’re old enough to drink. Mostly so they can drink immediately afterward. That’s one of hose movies you really only need to see once, like Schindler’s List.

m463 5y ago

As a kid I was traumatized by War of the Gargantuas. I just remember a part where one of the monsters reaches into a building, eats a woman and spits out a dress + bones. Now sort of amusingly, I don't want to watch the movie again for a different reason. It's because my memory of it is entirely sort of a "native memory" going back that many years.