What details of "Love Letter" touched you?

Valentin 2022-10-31 09:44:04

Grandpa was going to carry the high-fever Fujii tree to the hospital, but the mother stopped him from going, because that was the case last time, their family lost their son, husband and father.
Grandpa lay on his stomach at the door, and then turned around. Mom unconsciously protected the tree with her hands.

Everyone loves trees.

Grandpa: How long did it take you to go to the hospital last time?
Mom: More than an hour, at least an hour.
Grandpa: No, 40 minutes. To be precise, it takes 38 minutes from the door to the hospital.

When I got here, my heart tightened. It seemed that nothing happened to Grandpa, and he continued to live as usual, but he was stubborn and unwilling to move, but he remembered it clearly in his heart.

Grandpa: At least an hour faster than an ambulance. The tree is your child, you decide.

But no matter what, everyone's love is not contention and possession.

When Hiroko Watanabe came to the mountain where Fujii was killed, she didn't dare to look directly at the mountain at first. Then, driven by Qiuye, she kept shouting towards the mountain as she ran:
Fujii Tree,
Are you OK?
I'm very good.

The film uses a montage editing technique to show the different memories of the two heroines for Fujii. My brain can't articulate what exactly this feeling/missing is, or what's the difference between the two, but just as I watched Miho Nakayama cry, my tears couldn't help.

The tree recovered from the cold and discharged from the hospital with grandpa in the courtyard.
Grandpa: Is he your first love?
Tree: No, it's just a classmate with the same name and surname.
Grandpa: Tree, we also have a tree in our courtyard, a tree.
In the end, a group of children came to Fujii Tree's door and told her the secret behind the "Reminiscence of the Time Like Water" library card. As time passed, the tree burst into tears when he saw it and did not know where to put it.

Like it, don't you?

In the end, the tree stopped moving, and went with the tree that grew up with her in the courtyard.

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Love Letter quotes

  • Male itsuki fujii: [Checking out books from the female Itsuki in the school libray. The male Itsuki holds up five checkout cards that he has been the first to sign like a poker hand. He speaks in English] Fujii Itsuki straight flush.