Socrates in Love - Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World ( 世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ)
I finally get a chance to watch "Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World." It's a romance movie. I usually don't like to watch romance as I'm afraid to cry. I knew watching this movie will make me cry for sure so I prepare lots of napkins.
It's a Japanese movie and it has my favorite song from Ken Hirai.
Plot: In a small regional town in 1980s southern Japan, Sakutaro "Saku" Matsumoto and Aki Hirose, who were classmates all through junior high school, become high school students and then fall in love with one another. They share audio diaries, go on excursions together, and enjoy summer vacation. However, Aki soon finds herself suffering from leukemia and begins to weaken day by day, rendering her unable to see Saku or go outside. Saku, desperate to take Aki to Uluru (Ayer's Rock) in Australia (the "Center of the World" in the Japanese title), a place she had wished to go to, desperately tries to achieve just that. Aki dies before ever boarding the plane, and Saku is left to live out his life without her.
17 years later, as an older, sombre Saku trudges through everyday existence, the last tape of Aki's audio diary is suddenly unearthed, leading Saku back to his hometown in the south, and back into his memories of his last days with Aki.
The movie is really sad and make me non-stop crying through out the movie. If anyone haven't watch this they should. The movie remind us to not let go those beautiful memories in the past. In the real world we are so busy with work and making a living and at times we let go of those precious memories in our past.
I watch this last night and tonight I still feel sad from the movie. It's such a memorable romance...
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