The pacing is definitely not for everyone. It's deliberately slow, methodical, and occasionally repetitive following the sctructure of a true crime documentary perfectly. If you are one to expect constant jumpscares, then you may find this not aligning with your preference. The interview with Cheryl is this movie's emotional core, showing how trauma can imprison someone long even after the captor is gone. Just so so so messed up. And moreover, directors gotta stop publishing a movie where female suffering becomes their central device as if other elements won't evoke just as much terror.

"If I stay with you any longer, it'll make me fear death." Shattered me in a way I could never explain. The depth of death is measured by the people in our lives. Before meeting someone who gradually becomes your entire world, becomes the air that you breathe, death is merely an inevitable destination. But after bumping into someone whose existence becomes your sanctuary, death suddenly transforms into something terrifying. Not because of what occurs after, but because everything it forces you to leave behind. And maybe love was never meant to outlive death. Maybe it was always meant to give meaning to the days before death arrives. And Matsuri fears death because somewhere along the way, Kazu made living feel irreplaceable. She finally discovered a reason to desperately keep living. We spend everyday doing what humans are supposed to be doing, believing time is what we have only to realize that time was never ours to keep.

The plot unfolded along a path I could almost foresee until it came to the devastating scene where Jimmy broke down after learning about Ami's passing. Showing that life rarely grants us perfect timing. The unspoken confessions, the missed opportunities, and chances that taken quite nearly two decades too late. We often cherish how worthy of a moment is only after it has fleeted beyond our reach. What amused me the most was how gently the film treated nostalgia. Memories are best treated as something we can revisit, but never to live in again. Never to reclaim. Ami may have disappeared from Jimmy's life, but she never erased her existence that lives within him. And by the time Jimmy gathered the courage to "return" to her, all the remnants are the places she once visited and the dreams she never left behind. Perhaps this movie is trying to tell us that even when people don't last forever, the love they once gave somehow does.