Beautiful Life: I can't stop
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dangermousieOh my Gosh. I am crying. It's the end of the first episode of Beautiful Life and I am crying. Not because it's angsty or anything (though voice-overs worry me) but just because...you know. It's so so so perfectly wonderful. The characters, the scenes, the drama. The works.
But OMG omg OMG. He waited for her.
In the rain.
Most of the night.
And the man at the restaurant (that long closed for the night) gave him an umbrella but he didn't even open it.
(To set it up. After the publication of the magazine, he waits for her at the library, all hunched up and half hiding. (I love him) but she left and he actually gets her number. Eeee! I love that she asks him straight out if he used her (after a brief, rote atempt at saying she didn't see the mag) and the thing is, he is so straightforard that he admits he might have, he doesn't know. And she asks him if she can hang up now. And then he waits for her at that restaurant anyway, the way they agreed).
And finally he gives up and he starts draggily walking to an underpass, and he is all soaked, but his umbrella is still closed, but as he is almost downstairs, he sees her car pull up and she gets out (OMG, I love how she earlier looks out of the window and got worried it was raining.) You know, they both took such a leap of faith there. And he sees her and she sees him, and she is radiant (because OMG, he really did like her, not use her or anything) and is a bit more reserved but you can tell, as he just stares, how happy he is.
And they cross to each other (and much as I love over-emo drama running in Kamisama or Hanadan, I love that there isn't that here) and just stare and then he is all 'come on come on you are going to get rained on use umbrella' while he is completely attuned to her getting dripped on and oblivious to getting soaked himself. And he gives her the umbrella and she makes him duck under it too and it's just...
I HAVE NO WORDS.
You guys.
YOU GUYS.
But OMG omg OMG. He waited for her.
In the rain.
Most of the night.
And the man at the restaurant (that long closed for the night) gave him an umbrella but he didn't even open it.
(To set it up. After the publication of the magazine, he waits for her at the library, all hunched up and half hiding. (I love him) but she left and he actually gets her number. Eeee! I love that she asks him straight out if he used her (after a brief, rote atempt at saying she didn't see the mag) and the thing is, he is so straightforard that he admits he might have, he doesn't know. And she asks him if she can hang up now. And then he waits for her at that restaurant anyway, the way they agreed).
And finally he gives up and he starts draggily walking to an underpass, and he is all soaked, but his umbrella is still closed, but as he is almost downstairs, he sees her car pull up and she gets out (OMG, I love how she earlier looks out of the window and got worried it was raining.) You know, they both took such a leap of faith there. And he sees her and she sees him, and she is radiant (because OMG, he really did like her, not use her or anything) and is a bit more reserved but you can tell, as he just stares, how happy he is.
And they cross to each other (and much as I love over-emo drama running in Kamisama or Hanadan, I love that there isn't that here) and just stare and then he is all 'come on come on you are going to get rained on use umbrella' while he is completely attuned to her getting dripped on and oblivious to getting soaked himself. And he gives her the umbrella and she makes him duck under it too and it's just...
I HAVE NO WORDS.
You guys.
YOU GUYS.
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Date: 2007-02-25 03:21 pm (UTC)I literally had to stop watching halfway through. You are just... going to IMPLODE.
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Date: 2007-02-25 03:32 pm (UTC)Why? *is anxious*
I am getting the sense this is one of those 'happy ending, what happy ending? Let's tap dance on your heart instead' dramas. Eeeek.
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Date: 2007-02-25 04:17 pm (UTC)Because it is sweet and believable and realistic in a heart-wrenching way, and you begin to think, hey, these crazy kids could make it work.
AND THEN IT ALL GOES TO POT.
(It actually may have been the next-to-penultimate episode I stopped at. Whatever, it will tear you up inside. For reals.)
*gets sniffly just remembering [small spoiler]*
I AM SERIOUSLY SNIFFLY OVER HERE. NOT KIDDING. IN REAL LIFE.
See, this is why no one mentions it. Because you can't think about it without becoming a bit of a mess.
oh beautiful life why are you so tragic and wonderful
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Date: 2007-02-25 06:58 pm (UTC)And the RED SHOES. When she admits to him she covets those red shoes (so impractical, so normal girl!), but she can't go in because she's not brave enough to go into a shoe store in her wheelchair. And it's something she can't even tell her best friend (when she sees those have been moved or sold or whatever). She hides her disappointment and interest even from her. But not from Shuji. I just love how they have no masks on at all, with each other, or defenses (when he tells her about how disappointed his doctor family is in him).
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Date: 2007-02-26 03:43 am (UTC)And you know what? This is a little spoilery, but I was rather satisfied with the ending. Much like how I felt with Kamisama.
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Date: 2007-02-26 04:11 pm (UTC)Oh, that makes me feel much better. I actually liked Kamisama's ending...He was content.