Synopsis
"On the night of September 21st, Showa 2, I died." This is the first line of the animated film Goodbye Firefly. A boy in rags, dying in a crowded station, is approaching the end of his short life at the age of 14. This is Japan one month after the defeat.
In a trance, the teenager saw his dead sister and the summer full of fireflies. At that time, my brother and sister were happy. Small iron boxes filled with candy, fireflies flying all over the sky, my brother holding my sister's hand and running at night, and my sister's silvery laughter all became the ruthless foreshadowing of the upcoming tragedy. The air raid began and my mother died suddenly in the bombing. In the face of a sudden blow, all my brother can do is keep the news of my mother's death from his younger sister. In the empty square, my brother worked hard to perform the horizontal bar for his sister who was crying for her mother, and the two thin figures looked so thin in the sunset. Perhaps, at that moment, my brother tried to carry all his sadness and decided to hold a clear sky for his sister on the chaotic ruins. Brother and sister went to their relatives. However, war alienates family, and material poverty makes people indifferent to each other. More and more dirty eyes and less and less rice in the bowl suggest that they must leave. My brother finally decided to move away with my sister and build a home of his own. However, when he left happily singing, could he have expected the irreversible tragic fate because of the war? Fireflies fly again, but the bad luck of brother and sister keeps coming. Hunger and disease are the biggest problems that plague them. In order to stop my sister from being hungry, my brother had to steal it, and it was while the plane was bombing. Whenever someone finds some food in an empty room, he is extremely excited. The film gives this life more pen and ink: abandoned homeland, desolate Yuan Ye, calm and cruel, indifference and warmth coexist. In the dark abandoned cave, my brother caught fireflies into mosquito nets, and the fireflies flying all over the sky were clearly extinguished in the sultry night of summer. My brother clung to his sleeping sister for fear that he would lose it once he let go. However, war itself means loss. The life of fireflies is only one night, and everything is gone in the summer breeze. My sister already knew that her mother was gone, and she understood the meaning of death and grave at such a young age. A handful of small bodies holding fireflies fell from Jiezi's hands, mixed with the soil and turned into dust. My brother seemed to see his mother's equally fragile body burn to ashes. Once again, death struck my brother's young and strong heart. At this moment, tears rolled over my cheeks, perhaps for my mother, perhaps for fireflies, or perhaps just for the fragile life. Fireflies can only live for one night. On a beautiful night, it shows its charm to the fullest, and then quietly falls in the dark. The harsh environment caused eczema on the ambassadors. They had no money to see a doctor, let alone buy medicine ... The young sister failed to escape the double torture of hunger and disease and died tragically. The day Jiezi died was also in a night full of fireflies. With a smile on her face, she looked for a happy life in the most beautiful scenery that can only be lived in a dream. When the firefly lights up again, the small iron box with candy, the little girl named Jiezi with a silvery laugh, the air-raid shelter with a swing at the foot of the mountain, and the firefly flying all over the sky … all these make people feel a suffocating sadness. Everything is so cruel, everything is so inhuman, and everything is so futile in the face of war. My brother has tried his best to survive for his sister and himself, but he still can't keep his only close relative. Despair accompanied by the night arrival, when the flame gradually extinguished, faint fireflies sang the most touching melody for their lonely brother, and the rising fluorescent lights formed a warm smiling face in the farthest sky. It was the war that took away all his relatives and all his life ... That season ... was a cherry blossom for youth. .....