The name of the healing movie I share with you today is called "Nian Nian Handbook".
When you first hear this name, you may think that this is a very small and fresh anime, and indeed, this film is very small and fresh in terms of both picture and tone. But you know what? It also has a name called "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas," which is based on a particularly famous cartoon from a long time ago. The original name sounds very bloody and violent, but this is a pure love drama on campus.
The whole story is narrated in an interlude way, and the male protagonist of childhood and the male protagonist of the adult alternately appear, telling us this story of romance with cruelty little by little. At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist, who is a teacher, is entrusted by the principal to go to the library to sort out books. Back in the familiar library, he remembered a series of events that had happened here 12 years earlier with a ghostly girl.
The male protagonist is called Shiga, who is arrogant and does not like to associate with people. But according to the previous TV drama section, such a person will definitely have a person with a completely opposite personality who becomes his "nemesis", and the heroine Sakura is Shiga's nemesis. Sakura is very lively, chirping like a small sparrow. In order to change Shiga's personality and make him less gloomy, Sakura has been using various methods to attract him into the crowd.
In fact, this is the true portrayal of our adolescence, when we were teenagers, trying to change something that seemed impossible to change, and we would also be attracted to people who were completely different from ourselves. Shiga and Sakura are two people who are attracted to each other.
There will always be dog blood in pure love dramas, even if it is such a small and fresh plot. Sakura is actually a terminally ill person who has some problems with her pancreas and will soon be in this world. Although she didn't tell Shiga about it, Shiga saw it in her diary. As a young girl who is still in adolescence, she has not yet begun to enjoy life and is about to face death, and Sakura is undoubtedly unwilling.
She had a lot of dreams, but she didn't have a chance to come true, so she hoped that her only friend who knew about it, Shiga, would help her to complete them, and the cold-hearted Shiga actually agreed. They went to the big library outside the school together to read books, eat buffets, and meet to travel. Their classmates thought that the two were together, and there was a lot of gossip, and Sakura's friend Kyoko came to question Shiga, saying that it was because Shiga was too melancholy and would bring the cheerful Sakura with him.
In order to ease kyoko's relationship with Shiga, Sakura arranged for two people to meet even if he was in the hospital, and "forced" Shiga to issue orders to him to say to the people around him, "Let's make friends." Although Shiga was a million reluctant in his heart, he did it for Sakura's sake.
Teenagers and girls in the period of ignorance, in such a long-term relationship, it is inevitable that there will be some restlessness, but they have never crossed the boundary. The terminally ill girl, in the last period of her life, under the pretext of "her own wish is not fulfilled", the real purpose is to turn this melancholy partner into cheerful, so that he can take the initiative to make friends and get out of the haze. Such sincere and restrained feelings have long been beyond the scope of friendship, but it is difficult for us to describe it with the word love.
In this movie, there is no particularly obvious emotional drama, most of which are the daily life of two people getting along, but it is this kind of warm daily life that can bring the audience into it, forget themselves, be happy with the role, get angry with the role, and smile and cry are not their own.
The two people in the story seem to be completely different, but they have similar souls, and their encounter is not accidental, but a collision of fate. It is precisely because of this power that they can become each other's hope, become the light that illuminates each other's gray life. So, have you ever had such a "friend" in your life?