plsletitrain
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I started a new thread despite the recently seen thread because the title alone is a thread starter. The title alone should make you put this up your priorities list, but don't fret, despite the cannibalist title, this is actually a cute, touching, sweet movie about love, life, and mortality.
It was really funny when the scene where the cutesy girl smiles gently, emphasizing the cuteness of the blossoming love between high school classmates, the camera pans to a scene of a glowing sun’s rays entering the window, with a cute piano background and then the title enters: I WANT TO EAT YOUR PANCREAS/LET ME EAT YOUR PANCREAS. Boom! Such scene stealer.
Turns out the statement I want to eat your pancreas or any body part means you want to be like that person, and once you die, your soul will get into his/her body. Or something like that. Just imagine confessing your feelings to someone by saying “I want to eat your bile duct”.
This is about two unlikely high school friends, Haruki and Sakura. Haruki, an introvert, was befriended by Sakura, a carefree girl with terminal pancreatic disease. One day Haruki accidentally picks a diary/journal owned by Sakura and she confessed to him that he was the only one, aside from her family, who knows of her illness. She shares her sentiments, her wishes to him, before she dies. Haruki tries to suppress his feelings (not romantic feelings) but at the same time gets amazed at the bravery shown by the girl, that despite her terminal disease still manages to laugh, make other people happy, find goodness in everyone, and just live life as if she had no disease at all. Together, they did her "things I want to do before I die". 12 years later, Haruki finds himself teaching in the same school, reminiscing his wonderful memories with Sakura.
Although there were scenes that alluded to a romantic relationship, what's undisputable about the plot of the story is that it is a touching movie about a blossoming friendship despite the travails of having a terminal illness. Sakura has a bestfriend, Kyoko, whom she hid her illness. She reveals she did not want her bestfriend to worry for her. I cried in the end when Sakura, through a letter donned while she was still alive, told her bestfriend how happy she was of knowing her, and she loved her, and how she wished for her bestfriend to live a happy life.
I wanted to cry when the guy cried (after he found out everything that the girl was keeping to herself) but his crying face just looks like I can almost hear the director saying “Cry for your life dammit. This will launch you career!” so yeah, I just cried when Kyoko, the bestfriend, cried while reading the letter.
Stay tuned for the sequel, "I want to eat your liver". Gong!
@sitenoise The end part gives me More than Blue vibes.
I highly recommend this to the group.
of a movie.