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A woman is waiting for her husband to return from a war. She is very anxious that he may be ill-treated by his enemies, and she is troubled by bad dreams many times. When he fortunately comes back from the war, she is happy at first to know that he is safe. However, she is shocked to know what he has been doing in the battlefield.

The woman's nightmares are so realistic that I mistook them for what is really happening. Whenever she dreams the dream, it starts with the scene that an enemy is on the verge of killing her husband. These dreams must have been so painful to her. However, more painful fact overcomes her. The word ''embers'' may mean that war is not over.

This film is about a story of one imaginary couple, but such situations should be common in wartime. It strongly tells me that war is cruel and we must not repeat war.

A wife waits for the return of her husband from the war. She fears that he might have suffered cruel treatment. One day, the husband suddenly comes back. She expects to be pleased, but he brings another fear.

When he comes back in the film, I thought he and she would lead a happy life from then. However, it wasn't that. She is scared that her husband did such a horrible treatment to others. But in my opinion, as for the husband, he must fear himself what he has done. If I were in her shoes, I wouldn't care what he has done during the war. I would be delighted with his return. She must be sensitive.

By and large, this is worth watching. We should know how bad hurting others is.

This film tells about couple that lives during World War II. They live in a small cottage near the woods. One day, when the husband goes is at war, the wife has a bad dream. She sees her husband is about to be beheaded with katana by a Japanese soldier. Ever since that night, she is always haunted by this dream that she started hallucinating that her husband is in danger. I like the scenes when she is hallucinating everything. The visual story telling is brilliant. It was a little bit confusing whether all the scenes were real or just her hallucination, but I think that what makes this film interesting. When the camera shoots the Japanese soldier, it makes me wonder what happens in the next scene. The cottage and winter scenery make this movie feels like a thriller at first. And when the husband finally gets back home, she finds out something that might changes her feelings toward him because she doesn't think he is the same man that she loves. This film is worth watching and enjoyable. I recommend you to watch it.

Embers is a finely-crafted short that sensitively deals with issues in the immediate post-WWII era, issues that resonate in our present troubled times. Beth waits patiently for her husband to return from fighting the Japanese, all the while fighting her own battle with the nightmares that come to her, sparked by tales of Japanese torture and barbarity during the conflict. The film perfectly evokes the period through the use of library footage and 1940s music in the opening. Beth's state of mind is also brilliantly evoked in the stark setting of her humble, snow-flecked cottage, the exterior hues of chilling blue contrasting with the warm orange glows cast by the fireplace on the interiors. Beth's fragile state of mind could clearly be tipped one way or the other. And tipped it is, in the most dramatic and unexpected of ways in the film's climax.

Few shorts manage such attention to period detail as Embers. Fewer still demand such an emotional journey of their protagonist. The cinematography, editing and performances are all spot on. Significantly, well before Clint Eastwood was to be lauded for his "ground-breaking" rendering of Allied cruelty and Japanese humanism in Letters from Iwo Jima, Embers shows that for the individuals involved, war can be a matter of personal tragedy and defeat regardless of outcomes on a national level. What does it mean to win a war but lose a husband, a son, a lover? This small film asks big questions and is a triumph on every level.

The film begins from the scene where the wife is waiting for husband to return from a war. The war was the battle with Japan. A husband returns from war and it seems that the fortunate life is waiting, but… This movie had the very beautiful images. It was an image with a reality, so that many persons feel empathy. The woman's expression was very sad, and the single-mindedness of the wife who waits for a husband's return was impressive. Sadness when people have changed and emptiness have been transmitted well. The bad imagination may cause the still worse situation. I thought that this movie would mean that war has severe which changes people in the bad direction. Although there were many movies of war, I was the first to see the movie which does not take up only war directly but expresses the cruelness of war without the battle scene. I don't like the movie of war, but I was completely absorbed in watching this movie.

A woman always thinks of her husband coming back home from the battlefield. Then she has bad dreams of him being kept by Japanese. He hopefully comes back home, but something has changed. Is he safe? What happened to him? If you watch it, you can find the answer. I can't say it's an enjoyable movie, but i could learn the sadness and fear of war. It's important to know such things. However, the content of the movie is dark and scary. Also it was difficult for me to understand what happen to the woman in the end. This movie is about war. Therefore, I think it depends on people whether it's interesting or not. I want to know how to think of this movie when a lot of people living in a lot of countries watch this. For me, it is too tragic, but I could face the reality.

The Pacific theatre of war, and even more so the involvement of the former Commonwealth countries in it rarely makes an appearance in western cinema despite their relative historical importance, so this short film makes for a welcome breath of fresh air. It is 1946 and a young wife eagerly awaits the return of her husband, sent off to fight the Japanese army, but when he returns, she finds that he is not the same man he once was. Long shots and lingering cuts give the film an atmosphere of claustrophobia as well as loneliness, and the recurrent nightmarish visions that the wife witnesses are striking. Yet, the second act and the climax occur far too fast, not allowing the film to properly explore the themes which it lays bare. Particularly wasted is the climax, which features a good performance on the wife's part, but ends up not having much narrative weight to it because of the poor pacing.

At the beginning of this film, it describes the feeling of anxiety of a wife whose husband is at the battle front. She often has fearful dreams in which he is killed by a Japanese solder. Fortunately, her husband is alive and comes back home. However, she finds something different in his mind. Another uneasiness confronts her.

All of the scenes, sounds, directions enable us to imagine the gloomy atmosphere just after World War 2. It may look a simple film at first sight but you can soon find its complexity of theme and elaborate description in almost every scene.

War, it is an emergency and uncommon situation. We can be a hero just by killing someone. There our human rights are ignored and power is the absolute measure of nations. It is no wonder that war distorts our justice and changes our personality. This film teaches it to us in just 12 minutes. I strongly recommend seeing this.

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.

This movie is about a wife waiting for her husband coming back home from World War Ⅱ. The war changed him.

While she was waiting for her husband, she feared that he might had been killed already. Her imagination about that and a Japanese soldier is very terrible, so makes me feared. This movie also includes some grotesque scenes. A human's ear, for example, is very horrible.

This movie is full of some things I can't understand. I think as I watch this movie many times, I will understand degree by degree.

I think this tells us about uneasy and agony of a wife who wait for her husband who she doesn't know whether he comes back. Those days, people suffered from such things we can't almost experience now. We should know wars by watching movie, reading and talking with people.

This short film is about a married couple during a war. The husband has been gone from the war at the beginning of the story.

It is a kind of scary and difficult movie for me. How the actor who is the woman, the main character, acts makes the viewers feel scary and thrilled. It is, perhaps, because she acts as if it is a real story of hers. Her expressions and actions gives the hints of how the real world is. It is also difficult because it is sometimes hard to distinguish between the woman's imagination and the reality. Moreover, the woman doesn't say much.

This story reveals that a war changes a person. I feel frightened and sad after I watch this movie. Killing people might make a person crazy. The person might lose a proper thinking ability. It is a sad possibility.

In conclusion, this short film is a sad story which tells that a person might be changed by a war.

A woman is waiting for her husband coming back home from a battlefield anxiously. While she is waiting for him, she has a terrifying dream many times. There is little dialogue near the beginning, however this film focuses on her feeling and her nightmare from beginning to end and they make us easy to understand the story. Her dream describes her feeling and the change of it after her husband comes back. This short film describes her complicated and bewildered feeling caused from the dream before he comes back and the change of the beloved person's character and mind well. Also, the film poses the question of what the justice is in the battlefield to the audience. I think that this film tells us the terror of wars which have changed people's character. Therefore I hope everyone watching the short film because this film makes us consider the fear of war well.

Embers is a very gloomy story. One woman who waits for her husband lives in a house that is in the forest. Her husband doesn't come back since he has been inducted into army for the war. One day, she sees a Japanese soldier who is going to murder her husband in her house. However, the soldier is hallucination created by her. She suffers from it for a while. Such one day her husband comes back to her.

I like this shooting location because there is lots of nature, for example, forest and clear air. I am soothed by the scene in the nature. I think she is suffering from mental illness furthermore, her husband exhausted by war. However, they can care the symptom because the nature has the power to take care of it. They will get better soon.

In conclusion, this title means their symptom. The war breaks buildings and world order as well as human's mind.

This movie's main character is a wife of the soldier. Her husband goes to the War, and she is looking forward for him getting home from the battlefield. In this period, she has the dream that the Japanese soldier tried to kill her husband sometimes. Then, her spirit becomes abnormal state.

I thought that this movie's subject is serious and heavy, but it's wonderful to express to their complicated emotion for the war in the short time. This film contains the horrible scene, for instance, a dream that the Japanese soldier has her husband's ear. I surprised to watch this scene, but it gives us the fear of the War.

At first, I couldn't grasp the meaning of this film, but I found it at the last scene. To sum up, the war gave us sadness and terror. This film's meaning is ''stop the War.'' I thought that living in present Japan which has no war is happy.

I watched this movie, I felt very sad and war makes evil human. Without war, he doesn't change cruel. What does his wife think? A war takes a heavy toll in human lives. Of course, some people lose their lives, many people are injured their body. However it is not only. It is some people wounded their mind in a war. I felt angry that many people of not a sin go to war. In addition to, the damage lasts for a long time. If they who go to a war die, then their children alive and know the war history. And the tragedy doesn't vanish. This movie tells war sorrow to us. I don't watch the scene that her husband kills a man. However we need to know pain of war. We have to tell not to wage war to our children. War brings only sorrow. This movie impressed on me strongly.

In Embers, which was made in New Zealand in 2006, a woman waiting for her husband to return home from the World WarⅡis described. It is winter, so the ground is covered with snow and there isn't enough light to see well through the whole scene. I think that is the features of Embers. At first, because the character hardly talk, I tried to understand the story through their expression and chilly sight of the film. Therefore, after finishing the film, I couldn't put my impression into words and only my lonely feeling was left. I noticed that such poor and cold scenes or impression of the characters bring us loneliness. I couldn't understand the conclusion and what the film wants or tries to express in detail, however I could feel the character's emotion through such a thing.