I cried. Why did that innocent brother and sister have to suffer? What was the root cause?

I cried.
Why did that innocent brother and sister have to suffer?
What was the root cause?

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  1. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    The root cause of suffering is birth.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >What was the root cause?
      Japanese pride, the movie is quite clear about this

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Japanese treat their cultural autism as a force of nature that everyone puts up with and no one can do anything about.
        That's sort of true.
        But it's also a source of comfort for them, and it makes them Japanese.
        Takahata treats this brilliantly. Pom Poko is a good watch.

  2. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  3. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Tojo bombed Pearl Harbor. U-S-A! U-S-A!

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Because the USA was bombing the Japs for months beforehand.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        false

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        so true

  4. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I guess they shouldn't have tried to conquer all of Asia, oh well!

  5. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    There was a war happening anon.

  6. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    He should've pummeled his aunt to death.

  7. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    His stubborn, autistic "Japanese pride". All he had to do was stay with his aunt and maybe get a job to appease her, or help out around the house.

  8. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    The root cause were the Japs trying to enter the white man's colonial club and subsequently getting their shit kicked in. On a micro level, the boy is to blame for not swallowing his pride and staying with his aunt. If he did he and his sister might have lived to see the turn of the century.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It gets even worse if you read the actual novel - even if he got food, he would eat all of it himself instead of sharing with his sister.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Third nuke was needed

  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >stubborn pride causes the innocent he was responsible for to die
    could this be a metaphor for something?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      y-yeah, it's a metaphor for how evil America is! BANZAI

  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >What was the root cause?
    Believing nazi bullshit.

  11. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    The brother was a delusional idiot and deserved to starve. The only tragedy is he dragged his innocent sister with him.

  12. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Get a job.
    >NOOOOOOO, we’re gonna live on the streets instead because you’re MEAN!

  13. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    the dude that dies at the beginning of the movie is actually the main character

  14. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I think people look way too deep into this. It’s not about Japanese pride or specifically that. It’s just about the civilians who are affected by war, especially if they’re ib a losing battle. Especially if they’re losing as hard as Japan

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      No it's about Japanese autism, pride, stubbornness, indifference.
      It's the little minor faults of Japanese culture.
      Takahata was the most brutally honest Japanese man to ever live. He's a god.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I didn’t get that from this movie tho. Like, the biggest conflicts are the aunt kicking them out because that happens when a civilization is struggling. And they are just kids they don’t really have a say in the matter

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          You need to watch again or know Japan better.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, I guess. Could you elaborate your perspective?

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              Japan is an unforgiving, and passive aggressive society.
              I call it the Mexican standoff culture. They're always looking around at everyone else for something to blame. Standing out is as bad as doing something wrong.
              When you mess up, there's no forgiveness, ever.
              So they keep a lot of disruptive feelings and thoughts to themselves.
              There's no way to communicate disagreement.
              They're terrible at communicating and resolving disagreement.
              This leads to resentment when "shit gets real".
              There's pride, yes, but they lack the mechanisms for apology, blame, boundary building.
              It's all kept on the inside while everyone all suffers. If you're lucky, you have it better than others. Just don't let anyone see it.

              The main character had a b***h aunt who was unable to apologize or be nice.
              The main character couldn't apologize either. Literally, even if he swallowed his pride, by admitting flaw, he would permanently get on the shit list.
              So he tried to do it on his own with his little sister in nature.

              Remember he's like 13 and she's maybe 2-3. He has almost no idea what he's doing.
              She just dies under his care. No one in his environment has any ability to fix it.

              He steals turnips, but that would only piss off a farmer.
              And American planes are shooting at Japanese for fun just cause (I met a grandma in Tohoku who remembers that shit, like duck under a bush if a plane flies by because they'll shoot you just to frick with you).

              IRL the main character lived, he died in the movie. The author lived. But his sister really did die.

              Add the irony of a 2-3 year old is actually innocent, completely. When everyone else was guilty.
              But it's not like people didn't care. Everyone cared. They were just stuck between war and Japanese autism.
              The war itself was a product of Japanese autism and American cynicism.
              It was all fricked.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                I’m not the person you were originally replying to, but I appreciate that you made the effort to type all that out. It was interesting to read.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >the aunt kicking them out because that happens when a civilization is struggling
          She didn't kick them out, they willingly left.

          Admittedly, she was very callous and indifferent towards them, but she never forced them to leave.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, I guess. Could you elaborate your perspective?

          Apparently the "message" of the movie from the director is that the two kids died because the brother refuse to apologize to his aunt.

          Personally I think that's nonsense and mostly intepret the film as Japanese morons who can't accept they've lost a war and letting their innocents suffer as the price for their arrogance.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >uhm actually the message is LE WAR IS LE BAD!!!

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              That's not what I said at all, read my post again. I'm criticizing Japan for being arrogant enough to continue a war they had lost and letting their innocents suffer for it.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                >I'm criticizing Japan for being arrogant enough to continue a war they had lost and letting their innocents suffer for it.
                ok but what is the 10 year old supposed to do about it

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                I dunno, something about obeying his elders Japs are stupid

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                >ok but what is the 10 year old supposed to do about it
                die

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                That's what happens in a collectivist society. It gets even worse when you combine it with their pagan belief system, which reinforces said collectivism, and their insane nationalism at the time.

                Let's be honest here - if the US didn't enter the war, either the Soviet Union or China would've occupied the country and ground the Nips into salami via genocide.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        This. Japan isn't some utopia. Its full of bug people much like China.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          I really wish people would recognize this and stop glorifying soulless bugs.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It's absolutely about stubbornness and pride because the guy who made it based it on his own stubbornness and pride getting his own little sister killed in real life in a very similar scenario.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        you're right obviously anyone who read about this movie know that the author said that, however I think it's fair to say that most westerners who watched this movie never thought to blame the brother. In the end, the author is humble enough not to push a narrative and a moral upon us and instead tell a story and let people reach their own conclusions. I think in this case either the author or japanese culture in general has a tendency to look for blame inwards, even though in this scenario there is at the very least shared responsibility with many other factors that were outside the brother and the sister's grasp.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous
  15. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    The Axis should have won. Funny how all these utter literal homosexuals screech MUH NUKES MUHFUGGA well where’d it get you utter homosexuals? Are you happy with nogger trannies and israelites running the world? Sure seems like it

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >where’d it get you utter homosexuals

      If we'd nuke Berlin and Moscow we would be completely fine, chink lover.

  16. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Der juden

  17. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    FDR's first cabinet meaning was the New Deal. Banking holiday and discussion of the Works Progress Administration.
    His second cabinet meeting, next week, 1933 February, was how to attack and dominate Japan.
    Two cabinet secretaries resigned over the meeting.
    FDR was fricking obsessed with Japan and wanted to bomb them since 1932.

    Japan sent a clear "final" telegram to Washington 2 weeks before Pearl Harbor.
    Washington sent the Hull memo which said
    >if you want to avoid war
    >Give up ALL your territorial and colonial possessions
    >Completely demilitarize
    >Submit to American hegemony in Asia
    >otherwise, war will come to you

    This was the context for Japan choosing to attack Pearl Harbor.
    Like, breh, frick FDR.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      He was proven right though. The japs were hated by the people they "liberated" too vietnamese Filipinos

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Not true. Taiwan and Malaysia loved Japanese rule. Not including the british bawds in Malaysia Japan raped.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      The fact that we got Truman instead of Wallace as his VP was a miracle, things are bad now but they could have been so much more fricked.

  18. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Maybe next time you’ll listen to you aunt.

  19. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >what was the root cause
    israeli banking.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      WWII was America's war of choice.
      Japan would have been quagmired in China. The Soviets would have attacked Germany and lost but to a sort of stalemate.
      Nothing else would have happened.
      America wanted the war on both fronts.
      America is literally the bad guy of WWII with England in second place.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I wonder just how historically illiterate do you have to be to believe that?

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          It's basic literacy.
          You know about the war memos in Poland where FDR threatened them with losing American support if they negotiated with Hitler?
          The struggle with the Rockefeller and Anglo factions over whether a war in Asia in Europe was preferred.
          FDR's second cabinet meeting to destroy Japan (1933).
          The turning against Nazi Germany coinciding with German autarky and the loss of American markets there.
          The Chicago Tribune article Hitler cited in his declaration of war.
          The Pentagon cornerstone laying September 11, 1940 over a year before Pearl Harbor.

          You have to be a dumb braindead illiterate Black person to not understand that WWII was America's and the israelites' war of choice.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Right, and remember when the US invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, and Poland in 1939? And signed a secret pact with the USSR partitioning Poland between the two?

            And then the US invaded France, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Denmark. And then North Africa and Greece.

            And then the US broke their treaty with the USSR, and invaded it as well.

            Oh, wait...

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        It's basic literacy.
        You know about the war memos in Poland where FDR threatened them with losing American support if they negotiated with Hitler?
        The struggle with the Rockefeller and Anglo factions over whether a war in Asia in Europe was preferred.
        FDR's second cabinet meeting to destroy Japan (1933).
        The turning against Nazi Germany coinciding with German autarky and the loss of American markets there.
        The Chicago Tribune article Hitler cited in his declaration of war.
        The Pentagon cornerstone laying September 11, 1940 over a year before Pearl Harbor.

        You have to be a dumb braindead illiterate Black person to not understand that WWII was America's and the israelites' war of choice.

        America took advantage of the situation but they were not any way responsibile for the outbreak of WW2

  20. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Their countrymen allowed despots to climb to power.

  21. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    this is the worst Shitli movie and not because its sad but because it SUCKS

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Why does it suck, chudfrog?

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        dumb unlikeable characters

  22. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I have some sort of soundtrack of this movie where some of the characters' dialogue is included around the music itself. The little girl is so cute, knowing what happens to her in the story is heartwrenching. But then again, the voice is from some young voice actress who went on to have a happy cheerful life. No cute girl and boy actually died in appalling tragedy, right?

  23. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    This happened because American bombed their mother

  24. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >all the homosexuals ITT who have never seen the movie but MUST divulge their ultra-unique opinion on WW2, the least discussed topic in modern history

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Why make threads in the first place?
      This IS the place to discuss tv & film, or would you rather more blacked demoralization threads?

  25. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    The boy not killing and eating his aunt and her bastard children.

  26. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    For me it's Jap war crimes kino.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Jap war crimes kino.
      never happened

  27. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Jap government nd its populace didn't support the lost children of war. Midwits think its about America evil but its actually a criticism of Japan.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Don't forget they later on allowed to poison their own waters with mercury to such an extent that up to this day children are born with deformities.

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