Review of Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly
This review would be my first and I'm honored to have this movie pop my reviewing cherry(take the review seriously anyways). I'm a neuroscience fancy of sorts, this movie ACTUALLY STANDS ON IT'S OWN. They crafted a true thought provoking psychological masterpiece here. If you truly, truly appreciate the depths of the human psyche and comprehend the development trauma and it's manifestation than this one is for you. Feel free to go into this with very high expectations in the thought provoking sector, you will not be disappointed. SPOILERS ----------------------------------------------- --
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Let me get straight down to business. Sakura's sexual trauma manifesting in psychosis--along with the self hatred for believing she took pleasure in the treatment is a lot for a 17 year old boy to accept. Is Sakura a bad girl for experiencing pleasure after the years of torment???? Is Sakura a bad girl for accidentally hurting people as a result of Zouken's 10 year long experiment???? No man, it's not her fault. How much pain must the girl bear to accept herself...no she could never, so Shirou will try to share the burden.
Well okay, if you tell a girl who has been through all that she might become completely attached (don't say obsessive that's not fair--dependent).
He commits to Sakura despite this! Looking at the clock he reflects on this obsessives nature, but he's understanding.
Sometimes we love broken out of our own brokenness. It's fragile when you valuate that love as inferior to a romanticized perception of normal love. It's a big deal Shirou was willing to commit in the face of Rin's interest.
Shirou pretends to not notice Sakura's violent unconscious outbursts as a result of Zouken's experiments, but knowing that these outbursts results in the death of people he doesn't know causes a decent heart ache.
Sakura is of the most psychologically damaged imaginable and her actions results in the deaths of many. What does a real hero of justice do? Accept every bit of her, recognize none of it is her fault, commit to her despite other bachelorettes, and accept her extreme dependency to him.
DAMMMIT I WROTE AN ESSAY, whoops.