Not yet! I'm a little bummed out that I'll go into it with massive expectations, and I'll probably constantly think "oooh so THAT's what makes it so uniquely depressing", like I'll be judging its performance in the great Sadness Contest everyone has decided it won, instead of fully experiencing it. I hope I'll just get immersed enough early on to forget about that.
I wouldn't call it a sadness contest. More of a traumatic experience.
Count yourself lucky that you're going into it knowing it's not a normal Ghibli. I went into it expecting a Ghibli movie and what I got was.... Traumatic.
Not yet! I'm a little bummed out that I'll go into it with massive expectations, and I'll probably constantly think "oooh so THAT's what makes it so uniquely depressing", like I'll be judging its performance in the great Sadness Contest everyone has decided it won, instead of fully experiencing it. I hope I'll just get immersed enough early on to forget about that.
I wouldn't call it a sadness contest. More of a traumatic experience.
Count yourself lucky that you're going into it knowing it's not a normal Ghibli. I went into it expecting a Ghibli movie and what I got was.... Traumatic.