director's commentary on this weave
omori is self explanatory... it's all about living after death and the desire to disappear. and wanting to die is guilt. it's not being able to bear the suffocating awareness of being alive. it's self punishment for the things you've done. and it's wanting to join your sister.
and then you think, very quietly... maybe there's a second chance. maybe we can start again. maybe these neurons in my brain can still be rewired and we can rewrite the despair with something new. recovering from trauma. super danganronpa 2.
actually. actually. dirk on the rooftop after dave opens up to him and he realizes his becoming a monster isn't an inevitable outcome. from a meta perspective, a painful picture because we know he's headed for death. but he'll come back. he'll rise again.
a coffee, from the flashback ishida has when he falls from the balcony into the water. someone who has pursued death before, who rediscovered what it meant to live, and who now approaches the end not for wanting to die but for wanting to save someone else. someone who wants, who wants...
a nap, from the church room and the night before mae goes into the woods. a moment of comfort, of reconnection, of acceptance. a moment before the drop. giving your body the space to rest, to calm the fitful want to make sense of it all, to live with all this pain. to gather yourself and your resolution, and wake and walk on.
a sandwich, or, well, a burrito, from the judge's table where we wait. a liminal space. better with friends. we are here to negotiate our right for another opportunity to live and, this time, do it right.
a book, from a vacation. two people who have done so much wrong but who still care about and find transient comfort in each other. written with human longing. in a way reading is perceiving.
and the trauma from the past turns day by day into something different, changes its shape. a painful process, a leaf bowing under dew, the physical practice of transforming your pain into a cogent memory and realizing it and then finding release, making peace...
with yourself, with your home, with where you came from and where you want to go. home is difficult for ryan. it's how he almost left his partner, something he rejected and almost thought impossible for him. it's not a house, but it's the future. it's hope...
it's friendship, more than a place or a room. at the end of the world you are stronger for wanting to see your friends again. the magic of being together, and it guides you into your happy ending.
the simple divine, the moments of epiphany, the quiet beauty of the world. sun on your skin. how amazing it is just to live. and death might be easy and living might be hard but you can't help but fall deeply in love with the mundane, with the glorious, with these pieces of god in your hands. and it makes you want to try...
to improve, to clean up your mess and your mistakes, day by day. to invite someone in. to wash the failure from yourself and your home and your family. to cook for someone again, touch and flavor and hope. to give yourself and your loved ones the room to grow...
into a better job, into a better place. to leave behind what traps you in its maw, something that might have fit you once but was never what you truly wanted. or maybe there was joy in it, but as your world expanded your wants expanded too. there is better now. and you want the better. you have earned the better. you are allowed...
to want to live somewhere else. someplace where the sky doesn't push down on your shoulders, someplace where there is more than an echo on the riverside to hear your voice. someplace with sun, someplace beyond the cave mouth. there is more out there waiting for you. and you are reaching, you are stepping through...
and you believe at the end of the story there is pain, and there is peace. there is you, and there is me. and there is home and there is rebuilding and sky and hot tea and being alive, despite everything. looking into tomorrow, and cherishing today. being here. being happy.
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