As with good Japanese movies, this flick will take you through a whole spectrum of emotions.
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A girl’s forbidden love for her teacher. So many of us probably had crushed on our teachers someway or another. It could be the attention that was given to you in school, or that you had gone into a dark place and your teacher was the one that pulled you back from the brink of self-destruction. It could be just that you found an interest that can be shared, or it can just be your teacher was good looking or very pretty and you just cannot get your eyes off, sneaking glances in their direction. Or it is all these added together and you just dug yourself a pit so deep, you do not know how to climb out. And that more or less covers our show’s protagonist.
Enter our protagonist, a girl who had been in a dark place in her schooling life and contemplated on alternative methods of checking out from reality. Her teacher appeared and asked her to join the drama and theatre club. Thus began the slow recovery of her state of mind and infatuation towards
her teacher. Eventually, she decided to confess her love for him on her last day in school. After getting a mixed response from him, she takes her leave and disappears for a year. The movie picks up on her return to her hometown, where she rekindles her relationship with her teacher and joins the drama club for a school play. During this time, she meets another boy and gets together with him, riding a rollercoaster of relationship drama. She eventually discovers herself and who she really loves.
If you think the protagonist’s life is messed up, wait until you get to know the teacher. Sometimes I wonder how he thinks, doing irrational actions and later turn up making sane decisions in the other direction. I figured him to be bi-polar from the beginning of the show. And don’t get me started on the boy she had a relationship with.
As with good Japanese movies, this flick will take you through a whole spectrum of emotions. At the end, I had tears in my eyes. The movie is so touching, bring along a friend to share this moving story with.
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