let me just state before anything else represent positive . and not just a begrudging and i can not find anything wrong with it soo . kind of ten and but a very solid and well earn and freely give positive . ok and now that we have get that out of the way . wow . this movie remind me of the phenomenon jam joyce describes in portrait of the artist a a young man a aesthetic arrest . basically and he divide all medium into high art and pornography . he state that anything purport itself a art that resort to play on the emotional response of the consumer be actually just pornography . so if you find yourself overly move on an emotional level and you have actually experience low and pornographic art . if and however and the film ( or other work ) cause aesthetic arrest while a feeling that transcend emotion and make the consumer nail him or herself to the spot and experience the work over and over while make one question his or her own response and definition of truth and beauty and the like while the consumer be in aesthetic arrest and the work represent high art . in short and low art affect the gland whilst high art affect the soul . grave of the firefly certainly seem to fit well in that latter category . i find this movie so amazing because it always have me on the verge of tear but never make cry . at 88 minute and every image and every sound carry significance with nothing in just for the sake of bathos and sentimentality . rarely do one find a cartoon where inanimate object hold such deep symbolic meaning on their own and with no attempt make to underscore or personify them with wacky celebrity voice . make this film a anime be the obvious way to go . if it have feature live action and i think the sadness of the story would have overpower the beauty of the message . i do not think i would have be able to watch real actor go through the event experience by the animated character . these animated performance somehow seem to transcend act . they seem more indelible and more real to me . i be tempt to buy this movie and but then and i do not see why i should since one view seem to have graft these image onto my very soul . indescribably haunt and human and surreal . best cartoon i have ever see and up there with citizen kane and naked and the other great one .