Loading ...A psychological drama that talks about love, pride, homosexual desires, threats of puberty and psychological turmoil, the movie Like Grain of Sand is a story of a young ideal individual who is secretly hiding his homosexual identity behind private walls.
This remarkably insightful drama tackles the relationships of three Japanese individuals intertwined together by fate, and manages to moderately sort out some stirring comments about sexuality, friendship and love.
The movie is definitely not an ordinary movie as it tells about teenagers being paired off in a very complicated love triangle way. Discursive is the best way to describe the movie’s overall production as it boldly takes contemporary love stories into an unbelievable status, taking a whole new approach.
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As each character is introduced, the movie’s moving range of script instantly comes to the fore, effortlessly introducing idle banter between the individuals one minute, and intense conflicts the next, depicted with notable realism and credibility. The main characters of the story circle around three friends; the shy and lovable Shuji Ito, easy going and likeable Yoshida Hiroyuki, and the cocky, jovial and the only female in the group Kambara.
The first few scenes of the movie already reveal Ito’s homosexual nature and his intimate love for his best friend Yoshida, though both of them are still not aware of this.
Complexity of the story starts when Kambara transfers to their institute and became classmates. Kambara Aihara or Aihara seems to understand and sense Ito’s feelings towards Yoshida and gets drawn to him more because of his secret feeling towards Yoshida, and at first teases him.
To make matters worst, Yoshida is also starting to like Aihara, despite her unlikeable character and him having a relationship with a different girl from the class, Shimizu.
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The story begins to swing a full 360 degree turn when Kambara accidentally confirms Ito’s secret of being a homosexual. Brought by embarrassment and confuse, she heartlessly rumored to everyone how Ito secretly admires Yoshida, and the various reactions coming from different people making the following scenes heavily intense. Yoshida, being a nice player, is not about to condemn his best friend for being in love with him, but soon faces difficulty in dealing with the situation.
He learns he cannot remain passive in his point of stand as he would like. Not wanting to hurt his friend, but plainly not accepting his feelings, the situation grips in to a long scene where Ito kisses him and Yoshida agrees only to tell him that he doesn’t feel the same way.
This breathtaking part of the movie is simply impressive. Happening fairly early in the film, this movie event forms a very anxious separation between two guys.
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What makes the movie Like Grain in the Sand very special is because this movie high-lights same sex relationship problem treated with delicate consideration, that gave rise to an intensely rich flood of intriguing questions about homosexuality, love, friendship, and the action of each characters.
The movie’s tone is always serious, showing no goofing off scenes, and is only occasionally embellished with light music.
Overall the movie’s storyline and characters are all great. The script is well written, and the movie is successful in making its intense scenes standout.
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