After death, life begins. Or rather, begins persistent mental and mental work that accompanies life. Placed in new conditions, an unfamiliar mini-society, alienated at first, but surrounded by warmth, coziness and the absence of serious problems, the white winged still did not escape suffering and difficult choices.
For me, the city in which they live has become a symbol of the crucial stage that follows death, a time devoted to the analysis and processing of all the experiences they have just accumulated (if reincarnations are to be believed). Extremely complicated is the lack of memory of the past, at the disposal of only a slice of your personality, formed mental and personal structures without any resources to be recycled, in the form of experience and memory. Only a dream, a permanent companion for all the time that you will linger in this city and a name-symbol whose meaning will be revealed only when the time comes to go beyond the Wall.
This is difficult to see at the beginning of the picture, because the narrative develops slowly. I was afraid that the end would leave an understatement, an empty residue, but it did not disappoint and is very strong. We all struggle with some emotional impulses, forbidding the manifestation of feelings to look strong, or indulging in pride, not to ask for help again. The end is about that – having reached the extreme, drop everything and listen to what the heart is desperate to say and do. To stop fighting, shamefully confessing to himself in powerlessness, to surrender and in an incomprehensible way as a result of this act to find the goal for which the struggle was started.
But the end is not the whole story. One can even cautiously say that there is no main character in the picture, because the fates of the characters are unique and interconnected, even if the narrative is conducted on behalf of the newly arrived girl with ash wings.
Moreover, the last scene, taking its origin from the beautiful girl in glasses depicted in the picture (her story will be told just beyond the middle), taking us through the history of every other actor, puts a point only in the fact that there is no end and there can be no – the infinite variety of forms, events, goals, causal relationships and destinies of our real life simply does not allow this. It is enough to fantasize what will happen after the final credits, to remember the fears when someone leaves your school class, from work, even from relatives, and someone comes to replace him, is born in a new family and soon no one remains from the “old people”, but the course of life because of this does not stop. And you will understand that the series said everything it could – and does not require continuation.
The drawing is pleasant, soft, relaxes attention, the dialogues are subtle and sensual, the music is beautiful and harmoniously accompanies the events taking place on the screen. Watch if yesterday you suddenly became brooding and restless, and in reflection came to the threshold of the state preceding the catharsis. You don’t know what the word means :