Not a Happy Ending

“The Wind Rises” by Studio Ghibli, 2013. My goodness, it was such a touching movie!

Honestly, I’m someone who is easily attached to movies I just watched. If it’s about some serious topic, I’ll become serious. If it’s a comedy genre, I’ll burst in laughter. If there are sad scenes, even just the shortest slightest part in between, I’ll cry. Sometimes, even it is really not that “tearful”, I can’t help but cry as long as I felt like it. ANA even often tells me that I was so OA, though I don’t care.

In this movie, I just didn’t expect the ending. Of all sad things, “death” is one that really pinches my heart. In addition, it’s the protagonist -- and that character is within the love line. Though I don’t really don’t like the “Romeo and Juliet” type of ending, I still prefer the “happily ever after”. However, I know it’s impossible to have such fairy tale type of stories all the time. So in time, I learned to appreciate these types of bittersweet films and I learned to look at the positive or good side of it -- the thing I think the director and writer wanted the viewers to see in their masterpieces.

So… “The wind rises. You must try to live.”