grab the tissues!

Perhaps it was the high altitude on the plane that forced the tears out of me.
Or maybe how this pulls the right heartstrings with each of the actors' acting, how the story progressed, and how it still didn't end in a happy ending- yet remained with a hopeful and accepting clause of the inevitable.

I, as obvious as it is, am an avid fan of romance. The desperation these two lovers have to be together- even going as far as to cross the boundaries of time and space- yet still didn't end in what the way they wanted it to be at all. It's a very bittersweet film, ranging from "I know how this is going to end! Stop being so cute together!" to "I TOLD YOU SO." This film provides a large variation of emotions when watching. 

Despite feeling too forced- as if they want you to cry from this movie, I ended up tearing up a little at the end of the movie, when she looks at the drawing he drew of them as a family.
It really makes you think "What comes after this?" when everything you planned for your future has been taken away from you by fate. 

It's in the title itself. 

This drama is very bleak. In a good way, if that makes sense. It allows the sympathy you feel towards the MC yet the acceptance to see how she became due to her...job. It also talks about how she makes her friends join her, along with faking promises with her other "friend" until they're driven to take their own life.

To balance that off, we have the male MC who has nothing going on in his life. It's slowed to a stop, and fate agrees when he realizes he has not a lot of time left. Instead of the whole good girl bad boy trope that's oh-so common in the romance genre, this is the definition of "opposites" attracting. Perhaps some things had made me tear up...quite a bit. 

This is the sort of film where something is so happy, that you actually start crying. Him and Mao were living the ideal relationship lifestyle (to me, anyway.) which is all sweetness and laughter played over a bittersweet cover of an old song. To be suddenly taken away of that happiness these two were living by something so darn unexpected, to be ended with him crying over their song in the bar...damn. 

If I'm being honest, this film had the same vibe Koizora gave me...and that's not because both male MCs have dyed blonde hair. It gives off that feeling of forced sadness, yet it works so well in allowing that sadness to absorb the viewer into the film. I had a hate-love feeling towards the male MC. Although I love the tsundere trope and all, he was too much. Already using force on her and acting as if he had control of what he wanted out of this relationship either way. Yet he was doing so because he had no idea what else to do.

It was perhaps, the curse the seaside had given them.