Need to Confirm...


Maybe there's an obvious answer...but can anyone tell me what they think (or know) what Sayuri means when she "knows what she has lost?" Specifically, what did she lose? If you have more than one idea, go right ahead.

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The thread, the ending, has some good sumups of the movie.

My answer to you:
Love, her sleeping life or maybe just her personal dreams that wouldnt come true because of her "coma".

good movie! /azor

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The explanation I'm sitting on right now is her youth, her innocence, and her childhood...anyone think this is cliche, that I'm way off, or I'm dead on?

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Im still thinking it out, but if yur right, then its nt nearly as deep as i thought

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Or is it merely that she's lost the place promised?

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One meaning to this I heard is that she realises that when she wakes up from the coma, she will lose all memory of her past life(i.e. her life with Hiroki.

So she starts crying when she realises this, and then she wakes up, crying but not knowing why. Hiroki then makes a comment of "starting a new life", supporting the previous theory.

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Not my "favorite" theory, but it's probably the best, and most reasonable, one that I've heard. Especially since I found out recently that in Spirited Away, Chihiro won't remember anything that happened. I'm going to accept it, as it does explain Sayuri's actions very well. I'm out of any new theories, so thanks everyone for reducing the ambiguity.

Edit: I read a review not too long ago calling this a "tale of people who are afraid to wake up lest they lose their dreams." Any thoughts on this?

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She is going to lose the dream she had and the bond with Hiroki that formed when she was asleep. She was waiting for him all that time, lonely, but felt his presence. She is not going to remember the longing, but also the hope and happiness when she met him in the dream, when their hands touched, she is going to forget about the love their shared.

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Yeah, I think the fact that she says 'Fujisawa-kun' as she wakes up means that at the very least she'll remember everything up to the last time she fell asleep. But she and Hiroki didn't truly fall in love until experiencing the connection they shared in the dream.

Prior to that they were just friends who had burgeoning feelings for each other, so the loss of all the memories in that interim space where they shared the dreams is enough to make her feel terrible sadness when she wakes up since while she no longer remembers what she lost (yet her heart tells her it was of vital importance). Either way though Hiroki obviously still remembers all of it, he's finally reunited with Sayuri, and as a bonus the world is saved and Takuya is finally content (plus he gets to hook up with Maki later). As far as Makoto Shinkai endings go it's a surprisingly upbeat one.

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