Surrounded by a few eight year old kids cramped in a tiny movie theater, at first the only thing I could hear was the silly chitchats whispered out from the side of my ears. Smell of popcorn and the crunch sounds of white fluff into pieces aids my way through many of trailers geared towards kids. It felt a bit weird watching trailers of movies that I have no interest in watching, since I felt the movie product will be a waste of money.
The movie set the stage in San Fransokyo, a smash between San Francisco and Tokyo, probably to accommodate the majority Japanese and American audience. It started out slow, describing an incomplete family with two genius boys. The older brother served as a role model for the younger, frustrated child prodigy. It focused on one of the things that we all fear: loss. The loss of someone whom matters the most in our lives is the most painful, and yet everyone will eventually face it one day. The loss of a role model, and someone whom you are so endeared to for pretty much a whole life, is something quite significant. I believe the development of protagonist walking out of his loss should be elaborated to make it seem more realistic. Towards the end of the movie, the protagonist lost for the second time. This time, he was better, because he has been through losses before.
I liked the idea of having the main protagonist experience multiple traumatic events. It ballpark outlines human's psychological immune system and how strong they can be once you are exposed to an injury. Hopefully one day we expose ourselves to so many of those distressing events, that nothing will disturb our emotional states anymore.
