[Solace]

Overall I liked the movie but I do agree with DragoonKain3 on the ending.

Spoiler for ending:

It was bittersweet but you know the chances she'll reunite with him are slim at best. I thought the last line was just too much false hope, but Makoto seems strong enough to move on, which I think is what the whole idea was. Time waits for no one. Everything moves on, even if you want a moment to last forever. Alot of people wish they could go back and change some event, but even the most well intentioned change can have devastating effects. I think the aunt was just saying that you should take opportunities when you can, or you might find yourself regretting what could have been. I don't think it was a first love theme so much as a live life to the fullest theme. Enjoy what you can because you never know when it's gone, that kind of thing.

However, the movie could have ended perfectly fine without Chiaki's last line and probably been better off for it.

Nice article Iwanihana. That's a perspective I hadn't considered. Also, whoever wrote that reply to your article made my head hurt with his theories.