My Personal "Look Back"
Vivian Nelson 11/16/2024I just watched Look Back. The film adapted from a one shot manga which released released this year. I hadn't read the one shot but I knew going in to it that it'd touch on a lot of personal pain spots for me. I don't think I was prepared for exactly how deep it'd press in to me. A lot of my own thoughts about drawing, how I viewed it growing up, how that shifted over time, and how I regret the connections I've lost with others. This isn't so much a review as it is a lot of my personal thoughts right after having watched Look Back. That said, there will be spoilers contained in this blog post. So if you want to watch this movie with completely fresh eyes you might want to come back to this later. Opening with the weekly school paper being handed out to a class of elementary students, the protagonist Fujino having drawn the weekly comic strip and receiving compliments from all of her classmates on her drawings, I already start feeling like I'm punched in the gut. While I wasn't publishe