Grave of the fireflies

tl;dr Watch this fucking movie and prepare to shed two tears.

It's encapsulation of male disposability is important. It's lesson about the necessity of risk and the understanding that just because you do risk it all, doesn't mean you'll win is also something you must understand.

Grave of the fireflies is a movie about the human condition. A movie all men should watch and understand and internalize. It is both terrifying and inspiring. Demoralizing and motivational. The movie spoils itself, it doesn't foreshadow, it doesn't sugar coat, it doesn't even try to give hope honestly. Therefore, I'm going to be giving details about this movie so that you understand why I want you to watch this. When it opens up, you see a scene of the main character dying in a subway station due to starvation right off the bat. What are the words out of the subway security and janitors? "Another one? Yup. Another one." From this point of death, we rewind to the series of unfortunate events that caused this outcome.

It's world war 2, The family is leaving to go somewhere together, and the boy and his little sister become separated from their mother.

The boy instinctively lies to his sister through out the movie from now on about the severity of their situation. Why? Because she is a child. She is limited mentally on her ability to understand that even in this grief, her mentality has to be positive.

After traveling to the bomb shelters that were setup for war time, they find their mother burned alive essentially. Once again the older brother takes this painful knowledge and carries it all himself. Now I'm going to take this moment to explain a simple trope of human history. Male disposability has always been a thing. This will not change anytime soon, but the seeds have been planted. What I mean is civilization and the concept of justice and equality are prevailing currently, it is only a matter of time before this eventually exposes the disposability of men to men and they will begin to change the rules. The red pill is only the start of this shift in all human life being equally disposable and the women and children first becoming nonsense. Side rant over.

Back to the movie. After finding that their primary source of care and love is thrown in a mass grave they go to live with their aunt. The aunt is a nag that would rather complain about that the children are a burden than teach them how not to be a burden. She demeans and berates them constantly for being narcissistic and useless.(This is ultimately foolish because all kids are hardwired to be narcissistic) She demands that they produce and be useful; however, they are merely children and she never offers to help them find work and make themselves useful.

Here comes a key point in the film. A man must make a choice. He will either: live in this hell hole with a woman that is destroying his masculine spirit and slowly die(stay in the blue pill), OR he can risk everything leave and make his own way for himself and for his baby sister(swallow the red pill).

He makes his own way. They build a home out of a cave adjacent to the nearby river. They try their best to live by any means necessary. He does what he must to survive. During plane bombings everyone in town leaves for the shelters and he goes into the town to steal clothes and food. They catch frogs to eat. They sell their old possessions like clothes, etc.

And it's not enough. The girl dies of starvation in the cave, the boy dies in a subway station in the city of starvation aswell.

It was tough to watch, but as I watched I realized some people watching this don't realize that this is common. This isn't just some unlikely event that happens during war time in a crippled country. This is an every minute occurrence. That realization brought the two tears out of me.

For every NWA, and Ed Sheeran there is a nameless graveyard of young men that are going to die in gang and drug violence.

For every Taylor Swift, there is an endless graveyard of women that ended up choosing porn because their other options weren't as successful or exciting or promising.

For every person that successfully flees their third world country in hopes of a better life in a more refined part of the world, there is a graveyard of used up sex slaves.

For every guy that wakes up and begins to lift weights, learn game, and push himself to his absolute limit and become the best him possible, there is a grave of fireflies.

Why does this matter. Because you must learn a vital thing. You MUST detach your effort, from your results. It is not in the results that you should find joy and satisfaction because ultimately your absolute best could be burned out in a fire one day. (Nikola Tesla) Hell your absolute best could be absolute shit to someone else(Over 90% of musicians, poets, writers, and artists). It is in the struggle, it is in your effort and process itself that you must find joy and satisfaction. Because it is more likely that in risking it all you will fail or produce mediocrity rather than become a legend.

EDIT: For the people saying that I'm trying to make this a "red pill movie", what the fuck are you even talking about.

To put emphasis on the main points of this post, which I took from the movie that I wanted to share include

1. Your effort and results do not have a proportional relationship; therefore you MUST detach your motivational feelings and effort, from your feelings about your results. To have very little to no feelings about the results is optimal. It is not in the results that you should find joy and satisfaction because ultimately your absolute best efforts at mastering something like singing could be a joke forever recorded on American idol. If you can't see how that point relates to the best efforts of this boy to keep himself and his sister alive throughout the movie then you're just not going to get it.

2. This gruesome type of failure and death is common. The movie does a great job of bring us into the situation and feeling it and empathizing, but after the emotions are past take a moment and think about how often people die of starvation or ill circumstances like homelessness? All the time. This isn't some extreme example of genuine effort to survive being squashed by bad luck and mother nature. This is a thing that is an everyday thing, which means you should be humbled, thankful, and most of all motivated to put your absolute best effort into whatever you are passionate about.

3. For the people that can't think abstractly this relates to sexual strategy in that some women that you want are never going to be in your league. Does this mean that you shouldn't go after them? No. But a key piece of abundance mentality is this understanding that I made explicit in the first point. Just because you put a lot of effort into having a high SMV and DHV in a situation doesn't mean that the women will necessarily see it or understand it.