Breaking Up is Hard to Do?: Yumi’s Cells

Western culture is bad at acknowledging and processing a lot of things: namely, grief, conflict, justice, fairness and atonement. A lot of these things are deeply rooted in the way we process emotion. Human beings have the tendency to either react too impulsively or interpret their emotions as irrational. Nonetheless, the way we feel about things and how we make sense of emotions matter immensely. In reflecting on this, I enjoyed Yumi’s Cells for two reasons. Firstly, it showed the complexity of a human being’s emotional landscape in an entertaining and earnest way, and secondly, it appealed to the audience’s emotions, in a way that probably bordered on the manipulative, but allowed for true outpouring that was very comforting to the viewer…this viewer anyways.