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Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★★½

We were gonna make so many things together. We were going to put out art that would matter to people and affect their lives. We were going to do it together. And now here I am, trying to commit to and focus on making something, anything. But it's just so hard. I need him.

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Their ship name is literally Fujimoto omg.

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if someone asked me:

“why do i make art?”

i’d say it’s because of you.

you’re why i wet my clay with teary eyes, why lead breaks under the pressure of my fingertip and why balls of paper lay in the bin like dead rats. 

you’re the feeling of doubt. the insecurity of my hands. you make me bleed the ink from my head and leave it all spilling out onto the canvas.

i’m nothing without you. i lay dormant until you caress my cheek and grab my palm and stab a hole through it and let me soak in the warmth. 

and i’ll feel pain again and again until one day you’ll leave me and i’ll feel nothing. your violence…

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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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There's a sequence in here where Fujino is walking in the rain, and then her stride changes to something a little bigger. And then we cut to her skipping, the rain continuing to fall. And she starts kicking up water, just continuing to make herself bigger in this world where she has felt so very small. This is one of my favorite sequences of this year, wordlessly conveying the whole mess of emotions this young girl must be feeling at that moment.

Look Back packs a lot of emotion in just a little over fifty-six minutes of visual storytelling. It encomes years, much of it spent hunched over a drawing table, the seasons changing around these characters, the days just…

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we were girls together

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the movie ended... and it cut to black.... and the theater was completely silent.... and from the distant back of the theater.... an unseen emotional gay man let out a whimper.... “yas Fujimoto….”

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Fuck…

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i guess this means that fujimoto is the way he is because he too experienced a debilitating homoerotic friendship in his teenage years

Review by Joe Bro ★★★★★ Liked

“I’m glad I came out of my room.”

Why we do what we do. 
Why we love who we love.
Why we keep waking up every day.
Why it matters. 

“Then why do you draw, Fujino?”

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As an animator, the film throws me back to a time where I didn’t care about people’s opinion and simply drew what I wanted for fun… I miss that, I really do.

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Me voy a matar