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Grave of the Fireflies is the most emotionally disturbing movie I have ever watched (including non animes). It is a masterpiece but I wouldn't really recommend

Grave of the Fireflies is the most emotionally disturbing movie I have ever watched (including non animes). It is a masterpiece but I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone.

everybodyknows 1y ago
Ever seen "Threads"?
iamwil 1y ago
It's the only movie that I liked that I'd only want to watch once.
- jpecar 1y ago
  And if you want an anime series that you can classify like this, check out "Now and then, here and there".
  - Aeolun 1y ago
    This starts out so innocent, and becomes so disturbing.
pchristensen 1y ago
It was definitely not a barrel of monkeys, but I think it is an important expression of the costs of war on the innocent, and the effects of societal inequality in general. It's powerful in a way that statistics cannot deliver. You'd also be hard pressed to find a better story of unconditional love, duty, sacrifice, and maturity.
BriggyDwiggs42 1y ago
Oh I couldn’t remember what this was called. I watched it for a film class. Utterly devastating.
khimaros 1y ago
tell me you haven't seen Old Boy without telling me you haven't seen Old Boy
- tialaramex 1y ago
  Oldboy is fiction. The two children in Grave of the Fireflies are fictional, but they're standing in for a tremendous number of real Japanese civilians killed by these events - in some cases literally starved to death. The Americans really did drop incendiary devices on those cities to burn homes to the ground, in our real world. You can certainly make an argument that it was somehow "justified" but it's a terrible thing to have done even if you're quite sure that it wasn't a war crime (which I am not).
  - FuriouslyAdrift 1y ago
    Grave of the Fireflies is "semi" auto-biographical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies_(short_...
- randomNumber7 1y ago
  I actually have seen old boy and it is an order of magnitude less disturbing.
- bigyabai 1y ago
  Oldboy is a well-made film, but absolute pulp. It's disturbing in a Silence of the Lambs, manufactured drama sort of way. Your adult amygdala should probably not be disturbed by it all that much.
h2zizzle 1y ago
If you ever do, make sure to do so as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro (as it was originally released in theaters).

Grave of the Fireflies is the most emotionally disturbing movie I have ever watched (including non animes). It is a masterpiece but I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone.

everybodyknows 1y ago

Ever seen "Threads"?

iamwil 1y ago

It's the only movie that I liked that I'd only want to watch once.

jpecar 1y ago
And if you want an anime series that you can classify like this, check out "Now and then, here and there".
- Aeolun 1y ago
  This starts out so innocent, and becomes so disturbing.

pchristensen 1y ago

It was definitely not a barrel of monkeys, but I think it is an important expression of the costs of war on the innocent, and the effects of societal inequality in general. It's powerful in a way that statistics cannot deliver. You'd also be hard pressed to find a better story of unconditional love, duty, sacrifice, and maturity.

BriggyDwiggs42 1y ago

Oh I couldn’t remember what this was called. I watched it for a film class. Utterly devastating.

khimaros 1y ago

tell me you haven't seen Old Boy without telling me you haven't seen Old Boy

tialaramex 1y ago
Oldboy is fiction. The two children in Grave of the Fireflies are fictional, but they're standing in for a tremendous number of real Japanese civilians killed by these events - in some cases literally starved to death. The Americans really did drop incendiary devices on those cities to burn homes to the ground, in our real world. You can certainly make an argument that it was somehow "justified" but it's a terrible thing to have done even if you're quite sure that it wasn't a war crime (which I am not).
- FuriouslyAdrift 1y ago
  Grave of the Fireflies is "semi" auto-biographical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies_(short_...
randomNumber7 1y ago
I actually have seen old boy and it is an order of magnitude less disturbing.
bigyabai 1y ago
Oldboy is a well-made film, but absolute pulp. It's disturbing in a Silence of the Lambs, manufactured drama sort of way. Your adult amygdala should probably not be disturbed by it all that much.

h2zizzle 1y ago

If you ever do, make sure to do so as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro (as it was originally released in theaters).