Restless is 2011 British-American film about the love story of Enoch and Annie. Annie is terminally ill with cancer. Enoch who attends funerals of strangers has befriended a ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot named Hiroshi Takahashi. I will leave you to see the movie as I don't want to mention any spoilers here. But one of the best lines in the film is Hiroshi's letter which is quoted below:
"As I write this letter, the ocean breeze feels cool on my skin.
The very ocean is soon to be my grave.
They tell me I will die a hero, that the safety and honor of my country
will be the reward for my sacrifice. I pray they are right.
My only regret in life is never telling you how I feel.
I wish I were back home. I wish I were holding your hand.
I wish I were telling you that I have loved you and only you since I was a boy.
But I am not. I see now that death is easy. It is love that is hard.
As my plane dives, I will not see the face of my enemies.
I will instead see your eyes. Like black rocks frozen in rain water.
They tell us that we must scream Banzai!!! as we plunge into our target.
I will instead whisper your name and in death, as in life, I will remain forever yours."
This part of the movie has tackled two different kinds of chances that people usually don't take. First, to take a risk even if you do not know what the outcome would be. And second, telling somebody how you really feel about them. I am normally not a risk taker myself but I have been telling myself all the time that life is too short and rarely one gets any second chances when the moment has already passed.
This part of the movie has tackled two different kinds of chances that people usually don't take. First, to take a risk even if you do not know what the outcome would be. And second, telling somebody how you really feel about them. I am normally not a risk taker myself but I have been telling myself all the time that life is too short and rarely one gets any second chances when the moment has already passed.
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