Spinning a Life: Someday It Will Become a Line

Hello.
How is everyone spending the middle of Golden Week?

The other day, I went to see a movie for the first time in a while.
The film is based on a true story, titled "Why Do People Write Love Letters?"
I learned about it from the promotional appearances by Haruka Ayase and Satoshi Tsumabuki, and my husband and I went to the theater first thing in the morning.
Since it was a weekday, there were only a few people sitting in the large theater, so I was able to shed tears without hesitation during the moving scenes, haha.

I'd like to jot down my thoughts on the movie and my own personal reflections.
✳︎If you do not want to know the story, I would appreciate it if you refrained from reading further.

I don't think there is just one correct answer to the question posed in the title, "Why do people write love letters?" I personally believe that everyone who watches it will have their own way of interpreting it.

I felt that perhaps it is because we put our feelings into words to organize them, or because we want to convey or preserve precious thoughts.
The story begins 24 years ago, when high school student Nazuna (Haruka Ayase) writes a love letter to a boy she sees on her commuter train.

That love letter becomes a catalyst, and the story follows how the lives of her family and those around her begin to move in wonderful ways. The protagonist, Nazuna, is a bright and lovely woman.
However, she lives her life keeping her true feelings quietly hidden in her heart.

The atmosphere in her family, with her husband Ryoichi (Satoshi Tsumabuki) and their adolescent daughter Mai (Airi Nishikawa), is somewhat awkward.

Nazuna is busy from morning till night with work, housework, and driving Mai around. Conversations are few and far between.
Perhaps seeing Nazuna like this, Ryoichi comes home drinking every night.

There seemed to be a "distance of the heart" between the couple and between them and their daughter, as if they were suppressing things they wanted to say. In fact, Nazuna had suffered from a serious illness a few years ago and, although she was currently under observation, one day her doctor informs her that it has metastasized.

She doesn't want to worry Mai. Nazuna decides not to tell her until she is a little older.
On the other hand, Mai vaguely senses that her mother was ill, but cannot (or is unable to) say anything in front of her.

Thinking that she didn't have much time left, Nazuna takes up her pen to send the love letter she couldn't deliver 24 years ago to "his parents," whom she had never met.
Why his parents? Because he had passed away in a sudden accident one day.
She wanted to deliver "proof that he lived his life to the fullest" to the parents who had lost their precious son.
She had that desire, but couldn't bring herself to mail the letter for a long time. One day, through a chance occurrence, it reaches his parents.

Through this love letter, the way their son lived—which his parents had never known—is revealed, freeing them from years of long-held pain. The letter they write back to Nazuna helps improve the relationship between Nazuna, Mai, and Ryoichi, and as if filling a hole in their hearts, the family bond deepens.

The way everyone grows as people and the love of the family were depicted very warmly.

Living in the present
That everything is connected

It was a movie that made me realize these things all over again.

This moment right now is a once-in-a-lifetime, irreplaceable time.

Casual daily life
The time that passes
Someday becomes a line, connecting to become the story of each of our lives.
The life spun together with precious family and the people around us.

It was a wonderful work that made me truly feel the preciousness of that.

The hand towel I held was very useful.😂

Thank you for stopping by.
May this day you have seen be filled with smiles.🍀

〜This week's bento〜