Embers

The story is about a wife who lives in remote house in winter, waiting her husband to return from the World War II. She has a bad dream about her husband that keep bothering her. But after his return, she has a new fear. The movie has only three characters, but most of the film focus on the life of housewife. We can basically understand what is she worrying according to her hallucinate and the way that the movie try to present her husband's photos. There is some dialogue at the beginning and around the ending of the film, which is really hard to understand because of the accent. But it is not that important to the main plot since most of them are being told by visual story telling. I think the main message that the movie want to show is at the end of the movie, portrait from the real situation after soldier return home after the war. Most of them have changed. The movie shows concrete situation that may happen to many household in the war era. Which I think tis is a strong point of this movie.

During war time, a woman waits for her husband in a cabin in the deep woods alone. She bears the absence of her husband in front of people, but her heart is torn for her supposedly dead partner, agonizing how he was suffered at his last, and she starts to see nightmares. However, when it turns out that her husband has actually been alive, true nightmare begins to afflict her.

When I watch this film, my first impression was "shocking." It is not any sort of documentary film but it certainly depicts a fear of war. I cannot forget the Japanese soldier's glaring eyes, staring straight at the protagonist. I ultimately shared the same fear as she feels about the war theater and anxiety for her husband's life. During these scenes, my heart beat faster and faster, and the scenes were even intensified by being shot in the darkness, which inflamed terror in me.

I thought this movie described many times foot. The first part of this movie, I was impressive that scene underfoot of girl wearing new shoes and clothes. Her foot like she ware tap dancing the first excitement of the movie. Of course, it was excited me. The next, it was also good scene that underfoot of two girls ware walking along the line with holding hands. Depiction of her foot of the second half and first half was not very opposite. Her feet reflected in the second half of the film were, very dark unlike the first half. In the same way, Compared to the first half and the second half, depiction of their hands of the two girls ware different impressions. Especially, I felt something that nobody knows that scene two girls holding hands when they go home on the end of movie. I thought hearts of children are very difficult. Would her father and mother have been aware of the change of heart of their daughter?

There is a woman whose husband went to war. She watches hallucination while she does house work and sleeps. Suddenly, Japanese army appears in front of her and tries to kill her. She is afraid of and strikes him with tea cup. However, he disappears and she gets hurt her hand. After that, her husband came home and he talks about war with her. She picked up bag and open. There are fingers of Japanese army and she is very surprised. However, he talks about them with philosophy. At last, she cried.

First, I couldn't understand this movie's message. Mr.Alec explain about it, I could understand a little. Probably, I think that she found that he changes after coming home. He talks about war with philosophy. If I were him, I will talk about war with wept tears of regret. I think that War made him changed, so I was scared very much.

This story makes me think about horrible war. A woman's dream is so dreadful because an enemy is going to kill her husband. She ends up suffering from mental illness.

I think the movie is difficult for me to understand minutely but when I had understood the content of the story, I thought this movie is good for children who do not experience war because they can know how fearful the war is and it is not right. In addition, an actress' performance is so wonderful because I think her performance has reality that I could not take my eyes off. Also, I fell miserable because people's personality has been changed by surroundings. This man and wife changed a complete about-face. Finally, this image is almost dusky ant it is easy to understand.

I was surprised by the ending because the movie's ending is different compared with almost all movie endings. I think teenagers do not know about war and the times in those days so they should watch and learn about it. this movie is so nice.