Kokoro (2025)

Beautiful

For a short movie, this was so beautiful and touching.

First, it's loosely based on Natsume Soseki's novel Kokoro:
I think it's only influenced by it not an adaptation or anything, and I was about to be angry when I started it and found out that it has absolutely nothing to do with the book -except maybe the love and guilt theme- because I'm a huge fan of it, but this movie was so good that I didn't care about it being an adaptation or not.

The story is painfully beautiful and the 3 actors did a great job, I usually refrain from saying anything in my reviews for short movies because it's only 30 mins, anything I say about it would spoil everything but I loved it so much.

Kouhei was so pretty, he broke my heart in the confession scene, it was heart-wrenching, the way he said those words to Takuya's character... I want to give him a hug, I don't understand how could he bear to watch him like that and leave.

Highly recommended movie ❣️❣️

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Heart wrenching. Shows how humans can be shining on the outside while they rot on the inside

Disclamer!!! I may spoil lot of the movie cz i liked it soo much.

I knew it was gonna be a sad ending and decided to watch it although i usually don't but damn i couldn't stop crying and begging for the bartender. The story has let us interpret a lot of things. The acting is quite clear about the intention and thoughts behind the character.

For me, I absolutely hated the novelist. You sensed your friend crumbling right before you but chose to ignore it. I know the friend loved him romantically and sold his body just cz he wanted to see someone he loves have a good life. It was his own selfish decision but that doesn't mean you can treat them like that. The person playing the bartender did a really good job with depicting depression. The way he was hoping to have someone by his side while people did show him comfort with words but not action. The way his life seemed shinning on the outside while he crumpled on the inside cz he chose to love someone more than himself😭 and that someone who never valued his sacrifices. Throughout the movie you can see him slowly losing and giving up on himself. You could see his breaking point when "I" told him that he was boring and him just exploding with the reality infront of "I". All he wanted was a simple uneventful life. All i hope is he didn't die and found someone who actually treasured him.

As for the novelist, selfish to the core. He knew his friend liked him romantically. Chose to leach on him. Then left him at his worst. Worse rubbed salt on his wounds. You can see he was insecure from the start when the girl told him how popular he was and also the scene where he comes back to the bar only to walk away. He does all that to his friend and then marries a girl he doesn't love enough. I felt the only reason he married her was to feel superior and feed his ego. You can see him calling her scary and saying she looks down on him etc showing his insecurity and the way he acts towards her shows his lack of interest in her... or he likes him not her but can't accept it.

As for the girl her character was comparatively simpler. More like an observer. She saw and knew everything but chose to keep quiet till the end. You can see how she stops midway when she says "i knew he sells his body but i didn't want u to know". You never get the ans for why. (Probably cz she knew they liked each other). She keeps saying she's jealous of them the whole time which i felt was an hint to her ex who seems similar to the novelist. So the reason she said yes to him and cz he finds her scary is cz she sees her ex in him.

The movie is more about how humans will chose something that benefits them over genuine care and concern. It hurts but it's good

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