Grave of the Fireflies

(The Disneycember logo is shown, before showing clips from Grave of the Fireflies)

Doug (vo): Whenever there's a discussion about the most powerful animated films like no fairy tales, no magic, just pure raw, adult emotion, Grave of the Fireflies is usually brought up. A lot of people consider it a good segue who see animation as just kids' stuff, something that can't be taken seriously by adults. So when I heard that, I got really excited, and I sort of got this idea of what it was gonna be like and what it was gonna be about. I saw this film around the same time I saw Saving Private Ryan on the big screen, and I had an idea of what it was gonna be. "Oh, war is bad, people throwing up their hands saying, 'Why?' Oh, the no good of violence", and so on and so forth. But what I got was something very, very different. I knew it was gonna be more focused on the family, but not quite in the way they depicted it. I don't even see it as really a war movie. I see it more as a battle between pride and sanity, between love and self-preservation. So it kind of confused me when I was younger, because I kept thinking I was gonna see some sort of anti-war film, and I thought that's not really what I got. I didn't dislike it, I knew it was good, I just didn't quite know what to clarify it as, what to accept it as. Now that I'm older, that's one of the things I like the most about it.

Doug (vo): It doesn't seem anti-war or pro-war, it's just a boy and his sister trying