IF 1 litre of tears drown out the sun
Well, one friend complained I did not recommend this drama series to him after watching it like half a year ago, so here it is: １リットルの涙 aka 1 litre of tears (2005)
Sorry pal, the plot is so touching and emotionally wrenching, that after watching it, I would have like to put it in a small personal corner of my heart. It just hurts so much and I do cry, because I believe I truly understand this. It reminded me so much of my younger brother who was ill, and is not with me, and my family anymore...
This girl, who was sick with spinocerebellar degeneration, was fighting hard to live like a normal being despite her losing battle against her illness. Yes, she was sad when people see her in a different light, because she so much wanted to live a normal life without disabilities and physical limitations. It even pained her that people showered her with pities, as it shows so much that people had accepted the fact that she was just not well. She just simply wanted to lead a normal life, with so much dreams in her early twenties simply shattered due to the illness. No matter the pain, the unbelievable efforts she had to be put in, all was not in vain to her, but...
She decided to enter into the school for the disabled & for people of her same illness. This is akin to a death sentence, as it means to say that she had accepted her illness and her disability, despite all her earlier herculean efforts to live like a normal person. It represents the dying of her dreams and all her possibilities, and the picking up the bits and pieces of her life. But why did she do so?
Not because of all the mental sufferings and physical pains she had gone through, but BECAUSE her family, her close friends had suffered, their normal lives inconvenienced due to her own disability. The knowledge that others had suffered for her is BEYOND all the pain and sufferings she had ever gone through. She had to make THE choice...
If you are in her shoes, what would you do? And are you now even critically aware that we should treasure our life for as long as it gets, and live it to the fullest, come what may?
But if you watch it for the lead actress Sawajiri Erika, maybe another drama series by her will interest you
Taiyou no Uta aka Midnight Sun (2006)
(although literally means "song of the sun")
Same genre as "1 litre of tears", less emotionally wrenching but more romantic in nature. But definitely, 1 litre of tears have drowned out the sun...
Labels: Sawajiri Erika, tears
posted by Dexter at 9:50 AM
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