It is painful to watch Suzu ration rice and, almost invisibly, quit her drawing in favor of household war duties.
Falling into the regularity and mundanity of surviving a seemingly far-off war only serves to make the inevitable more catastrophic.
I will watch this movie several times simply because it continues to haunt me like a happy dream that ended as a nightmare.
Suzu, the movie’s dreamy protagonist, enthuses over a rare watermelon in her Hiroshima hometown.
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