Dykumu Ugnis

This drama is slow. Very slow. Extremely slow.

Yet the more I watched, the more I was convinced that this drama was one big metaphor for grief.
Grief can be intense but short. Or it can be long and excruciating. Especially when the person has things to regret, things that can no longer be. And that's what happened to Ame. Barely reunited with Taiyo she lost him to death. Before she could say to him and do with him everything she wanted.

With grief comes the loss of appetite symbolised by her loss of taste, the inability to enjoy scents symbolised by her loss of smell, the numbness to the world symbolised by her loss of touch, the desire to be left alone and not see anyone or anything symbolised by her loss of sight. And with the loss of hearing the total isolation from the world is complete and the person is then alone lost in grief.

But it's dangerous to give in to grief completely. And in its final chapters this drama shows the act of letting go and coming back to life.

That's how I see this drama. And that makes it so much more poignant and enjoyable, despite some lazy writing here and there. And despite it being extremely slow and very melodramatic.