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the problems of bad wishes
At first, like most people, I thought that the finale ruined everything. But then I wondered if it wasn't even intentional that they didn't want to show a happy ending at all.
If you look at the wishes, the only wish that is not at the expense of others is actually Thana's wish for a new job, at most if you assume that the one who otherwise got the job will now go away empty-handed.
All other wishes always involve third parties. So Nack wants a kiss, which means Reow is manipulated for this purpose. Overall, however, perhaps still harmless.
Worse is Reow's wish. He binds Mai and later Thana to him for life. With the consequence that he cannot end the relationship and in desperation then has to commit himself to the café, where he then continues the relationship with Patis or should one say has to continue-
Then Dena's desire to rob others of their memories of their lives so far, just to forget their own pain, is simply cruel. In fact, all 4 prisoners of the wish of Dena and Mai/Thana are also prisoners of the wish before Reow. But Dena and Nack don't have a happy ending either, the late kiss is now nothing important in life, in fact both are stuck in their love for Reow/Patis even in their alter ego and can't find a new partner and thus no happiness.
The only happy ending here is the mother and the son, even if he might have liked to stay with the mother, she has made a life and a future possible for him with her wish and has not bound him to anything with her second wish. They see each other again and the rest is their own decision.
This is exactly where the desires that differ from Dena and Reow in particular bind their friends and force them into a life that is and remains externally controlled by the desires.
Something like that can't have a happy ending and if they wanted to portray it that way, they actually did it well.
If you look at the wishes, the only wish that is not at the expense of others is actually Thana's wish for a new job, at most if you assume that the one who otherwise got the job will now go away empty-handed.
All other wishes always involve third parties. So Nack wants a kiss, which means Reow is manipulated for this purpose. Overall, however, perhaps still harmless.
Worse is Reow's wish. He binds Mai and later Thana to him for life. With the consequence that he cannot end the relationship and in desperation then has to commit himself to the café, where he then continues the relationship with Patis or should one say has to continue-
Then Dena's desire to rob others of their memories of their lives so far, just to forget their own pain, is simply cruel. In fact, all 4 prisoners of the wish of Dena and Mai/Thana are also prisoners of the wish before Reow. But Dena and Nack don't have a happy ending either, the late kiss is now nothing important in life, in fact both are stuck in their love for Reow/Patis even in their alter ego and can't find a new partner and thus no happiness.
The only happy ending here is the mother and the son, even if he might have liked to stay with the mother, she has made a life and a future possible for him with her wish and has not bound him to anything with her second wish. They see each other again and the rest is their own decision.
This is exactly where the desires that differ from Dena and Reow in particular bind their friends and force them into a life that is and remains externally controlled by the desires.
Something like that can't have a happy ending and if they wanted to portray it that way, they actually did it well.
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