I cannot stand this movie, it does more to be emotionally manipulative than actually tell an interesting story.
The absolute worst example I can point out is when here spirit is playing around doing cute things while wearing an army helmet, something that wasn't relevant to anything she did in life. It was nothing but the movie going 'Look at all the cute things she does aren't you sad she's dead now?'And that basically sums up the movie for me.
They don't feel like real characters, they just feel like generic brother/sister tropes thrown together, and the only real thing that makes the movie sad is (And this isn't a spoiler, you know it's going to happen at the start of the movie) you are watching kids slowly die for the course of the movie. You don't care because they are interesting characters, we are just hardwired as humans to not want kids to die.
All that said, you may not be much of an anime movie lover, but we do have an Anime Community here on Hive I created if YOu're ever interested in checking it out, it's 'The Anime Realm'. :p
Or if you use hive.blog for your frontend....
RE: GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES