Myu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru / Myu will give Daddy her legs (2008)
I thought I wouldn't be able to write this now but I think this is the case of "now or never". ごめんね妹ちゃん。
I've just watched the best j-movie of those I've seen so far, Myu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru (Myu will give Daddy her legs).
If we talk about crying at movies, if would be easier to count those that didn't make me cry than those that did. As for the movies that have anything to do with hospitals, I'm afraid of them (cause I haven't been hospitalized in my life *touches wood*) but I'm also weirdly attracted to them.
This is a story of a 25-year-old Yamaguchi Hayato. A 25-year-old man who couldn't walk. Whose wife and daughter were his strength, the reason why he decided not to give up.
It was a strong déjà-vu in a way. One Litre of Tears story, I've seen it, even the diagnosis was similar. And both being based on a true story too. And yet, strangely enough, I cried a lot more at this movie than I did at the drama.
However cruel this may sound but... it's one thing being a teenager, an incredibly strong teenager who fights, losing everything she ever hoped for, not having time to make her dreams come true.
It's quite another, being a parent, having a whole lot of responsibilities upon your shoulders. Because what you're losing, these are not your hopes and dreams, this is your reality.
Responsibility for big love and a little life makes it different. How can you explain all of this to a child? How can you say "I can't" to your kid? Children who don't understand a thing always keep believing, keep saying things that the adults would never utter, and however incredible these things may sound, they always mean it. That's why when Myu writes her wish on the Tanabata tree "please give daddy my legs", and says "now you write your wish too", it's the last drop that simply tears me apart.
It's not Hayato who teaches little Myu the meaning of life. It's Myu who teaches her Dad. Only a child can love like this.
The biggest miracles start from the smallest effort, from a grain of courage, of love that makes you want to go on.
But here it's not even a grain. It's the whole sea of love inside one tiny body of a child. This love that keeps two grown-ups together. And you believe it always will.
I've just watched the best j-movie of those I've seen so far, Myu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru (Myu will give Daddy her legs).
If we talk about crying at movies, if would be easier to count those that didn't make me cry than those that did. As for the movies that have anything to do with hospitals, I'm afraid of them (cause I haven't been hospitalized in my life *touches wood*) but I'm also weirdly attracted to them.
This is a story of a 25-year-old Yamaguchi Hayato. A 25-year-old man who couldn't walk. Whose wife and daughter were his strength, the reason why he decided not to give up.
It was a strong déjà-vu in a way. One Litre of Tears story, I've seen it, even the diagnosis was similar. And both being based on a true story too. And yet, strangely enough, I cried a lot more at this movie than I did at the drama.
However cruel this may sound but... it's one thing being a teenager, an incredibly strong teenager who fights, losing everything she ever hoped for, not having time to make her dreams come true.
It's quite another, being a parent, having a whole lot of responsibilities upon your shoulders. Because what you're losing, these are not your hopes and dreams, this is your reality.
Responsibility for big love and a little life makes it different. How can you explain all of this to a child? How can you say "I can't" to your kid? Children who don't understand a thing always keep believing, keep saying things that the adults would never utter, and however incredible these things may sound, they always mean it. That's why when Myu writes her wish on the Tanabata tree "please give daddy my legs", and says "now you write your wish too", it's the last drop that simply tears me apart.
It's not Hayato who teaches little Myu the meaning of life. It's Myu who teaches her Dad. Only a child can love like this.
The biggest miracles start from the smallest effort, from a grain of courage, of love that makes you want to go on.
But here it's not even a grain. It's the whole sea of love inside one tiny body of a child. This love that keeps two grown-ups together. And you believe it always will.