Beautiful, But I'm REALLY confused

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — All About Lily Chou-Chou

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pointanlaugh — 16 years ago(November 27, 2009 08:14 PM)

I understood many of the basic details of what was going on in this movie, but overall at the end I felt like chunks of the plot were missing as some of the boys look similar and I had trouble telling whether the whole story was told in a linear fashion or if some scenes are flashbacks or if some are flashforwards, etc. Could anyone offer up a detailed summary of what happens in the movie and who each character is and if the movie is told in a chronologically linear fashion or not? That would really help clarify some things. Thanks!

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ingenue82 — 16 years ago(November 27, 2009 10:38 PM)

Here I copy-paste from wikipedia. I hope it helps
All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two childhood friends, Shusuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the end of their junior high school run until the beginning of high school.
The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after high school begins, then flashes back to junior high and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=25080181

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henrimaine — 12 years ago(July 27, 2013 06:49 PM)

My opinion of the film is similar - it was an interesting experience to watch it, but many plot details remained unclear to me. And that was partly due to my inability to tell some of the characters apart.