Jun Satō
“Drawing Closer” is a Japanese movie directed by Takahiro Miki starring Ren Nagase and Natsuki Deguchi.
A beautiful and beguiling romantic movie starting from an utterly tragic and paradoxical premise: a boy and a girl fall in love, they share nearly everything in common, but both are suffering from an illness that leaves them with only a few months to live. “Drawing Closer” is one of those films that strikes straight to the heart, stirring the deepest human emotions as it explores the great themes of life: love, living, and death, and in between, the beauty that pervades all around us.
Even though a flower is doomed to disappear, it leaves behind a fleeting moment of intense, profound and genuine beauty. A film that is profoundly alive and profoundly beautiful. If you’re looking for a movie that connects you with profound and inner truths, “Drawing Closer” will indeed cater to your taste.
About “Drawing Closer”
A Japanese production that doesn’t aim to revolutionize cinematic narrative; instead, it narrates something that transcends cinema: the sad yet powerfully beautiful reality that everything is ephemeral. “Drawing Closer” draws on a universal metaphor of flowers and art. Can art be immortal, portraying, precisely, the fleetingness of time? This universal paradox encapsulates intense beauty and truth which has beckoned humans for centuries. Now, this transcendence is captured in two teenage characters, both 17 years old, both with a full life ahead of them, yet forced to live their entire lives within a few months.
“Drawing Closer” is profoundly Japanese in its composed style and photographic tone, also in a certain Buddhist sense of understanding the world and its relationship with nature. How can we come to accept death when we have an entire life ahead of us, and also find our destined soul mate? Prepare to shed tears because the premise of “Drawing Closer” runs so deep and transcendental that it leaves no other conclusion.
Our opinion
“Drawing Closer” is not a film to watch, but a film to feel the characters and rejoice in the joy of being alive, appreciating the profound beauty of this wonderful, fleeting life that withers and lives each second. Enjoy it to the hilt.
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