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Information
- A.k.a.
- I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 109 min.
- Director
- Shin'ichirô Ushijima
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Animation
- Rating *
- 7.7
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 203
- Favs
- 20
- Dislikes
- 2
- Favs/checks
- 9.9% (1:10)
- Favs/dislikes
- 10:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
I can't argue with I Want to Eat Your Pancreas' detractors that the premise of a dour loner beings awakened to the world around him by what is uncharitably (in this case) called a manic pixie dream girl (of the dying variety) has been done, but Shinichiro Ushijima's film is so well-observed and sensitive to the teen psyche that I can't possibly see it that way. This isn't a romance, not really, and initially more of a naive seduction at her hands, making moves before her life is cut short by a pancreatic disease. The relationship is awkward in part because it only exists due to his being her only classmate who knows her secret. And he's not just a loner, he's incapable of processing and properly exhibiting emotion, asocial perhaps by way of being somewhere on the spectrum. Critics similarly mistake the objectionable moment where they sexually harass each other as somehow teaching that this is okay. The film doesn't judge; these are kids making mistakes in moments of heightened emotionality. "I don't like this behavior" is a normal response, but not an indictment of a story that's true to its characters. We know from the beginning we're in for some heartache, and yet, it still finds a way to surprise and pack a punch. 1 month 4 weeks ago