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This is a movie about 3 BFFs since childhood: Shuta, Michiru & Saku. Saku dies of an heart attack in high school and since then, Shuta and Michiru's ways part, they never see each other again, both feeling guilty about what happened. But then, one day, Shuta finds a way to travel back in time and change the past. But it comes at a cost.
At first, I didn't think I would cry as much as I did because the first 2/3 or so of the movie are actually quite funny. I started feeling a little wobbly when Kyoko, the time traveler stuck outside of time for over 60 years, told Shuta about the consequences of changing the past - the loss of all memories. Everything gets rewritten. Everyone forgets the time traveler and he/she forgets them. And Shuta still decides to save Saku because he wants Saku to live, even at the cost of becoming a stranger to both him and Michiru...
And then, the scene at the train station. When Shuta saves Saku and they manage to catch Michiru before leaving and Shuta thinks that Michiru loves Saku and that Saku loves Michiru and so he's okay with them forgetting him because they will have each other, so it's okay, everything is okay...
But then, in the very last moments before everything gets rewritten, Shuta finds out that Michiru was never in love with Saku, she was in love with him, with Shuta, and Saku knew that. Shuta's realization... When he started crying - his friends' shock because they didn't get why! - when he managed to ask Michiru to smile at him if they ever meet again, even if she didn't remember him, when he told Saku he was entrusting Michiru to him - and in the next moment, they forgot all about him... Yeah, that's when I started bawling like a little kid.
Also, Kyoko's tears. Her, "I will remember you..."
And then the last scene on the beach, when Michiru and Saku met Shuta there, strangers to each other... The way they looked, like an old married couple, sweet but, well, boring, to be honest. It showed how different their life was without Shuta in it. But Shuta felt also a little different, so... peaceful. I think that if he remembered what he had done, he would still find it worth it.
Gosh, this movie. My head's aching from all the crying I did.
At first, I didn't think I would cry as much as I did because the first 2/3 or so of the movie are actually quite funny. I started feeling a little wobbly when Kyoko, the time traveler stuck outside of time for over 60 years, told Shuta about the consequences of changing the past - the loss of all memories. Everything gets rewritten. Everyone forgets the time traveler and he/she forgets them. And Shuta still decides to save Saku because he wants Saku to live, even at the cost of becoming a stranger to both him and Michiru...
And then, the scene at the train station. When Shuta saves Saku and they manage to catch Michiru before leaving and Shuta thinks that Michiru loves Saku and that Saku loves Michiru and so he's okay with them forgetting him because they will have each other, so it's okay, everything is okay...
But then, in the very last moments before everything gets rewritten, Shuta finds out that Michiru was never in love with Saku, she was in love with him, with Shuta, and Saku knew that. Shuta's realization... When he started crying - his friends' shock because they didn't get why! - when he managed to ask Michiru to smile at him if they ever meet again, even if she didn't remember him, when he told Saku he was entrusting Michiru to him - and in the next moment, they forgot all about him... Yeah, that's when I started bawling like a little kid.
Also, Kyoko's tears. Her, "I will remember you..."
And then the last scene on the beach, when Michiru and Saku met Shuta there, strangers to each other... The way they looked, like an old married couple, sweet but, well, boring, to be honest. It showed how different their life was without Shuta in it. But Shuta felt also a little different, so... peaceful. I think that if he remembered what he had done, he would still find it worth it.
Gosh, this movie. My head's aching from all the crying I did.
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