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PhoenixQuill Reviews Josee, the Tiger and the Fish - a story of growth and perusing your dreams

I watched this movie because of the controversy that happened with this movie between how the feminists and the incels both complained about the sides of this movie. One side saying the main dude took advantage of Josee and the other saying Josee was not deserving of love at all for her being a entitled rude bitch.
So instead of letting other people think for me I decided to give it a watch and make my own opinion as someone who has loved anime my whole life and who isnt insane. So my fiancee and I sat down and gave it a watch while eating dinner. 

Story followed the main dude who wants to be a Marine biologist and study abroad in Mexico. He has 2 friends he works with a dude and a chick. He is going to college and working multiple jobs. The main girl Josee is paralyzed from the waist down and while out with her Grand Ma she goes down a steep hill out of control and the guy catches her saving her from injury. Josee is a bitch to him and Grand Ma offers him a meal and then a job as Josee's caretaker while Grand Ma is busy doing other things. During this time Josee is a major bitch and bratt to him but we find out while. Grand Ma has kept Josee in basically a gilded cage of spoiling and infantizing her. Shes not allowed out on her own even though shes an adult. Ever since Josee's parents died. Shes never had friends, and Grand Ma doesn't let her even get a job. So it becomes apparent Josee's bad behavior is a result of being coddled and sheltered away. Josee runs off to try and go to the beach because she wanted to know how ocean water tasted after she remembered one of the last converstations she had with her dad before he died. Grand Ma panics not knowing where Josee went and main dude finds her struggling to figure out how to get a ticket. He takes her to the beach and she has this child like wonder of never seeing a plane on being on a train before. Dude decides to take her to different places she has never gone before sneaking behind the Grand Ma's back. Which gets Josee to start opening up and gaining confidence and main dude finds out Josee is a decent artist and she loves the sea like him. During this the female friend gets jealous because she likes the main dude. Josee's Grand Ma dies and Josee has to fire the main dude but he keeps showing up cause he cares for her. Not love yet but as a friend. Female friend basically tells Josee to not hold the main guy from his dream of going to Mexico and he only takes care of her out of pity. Josee freaks out gets in a mood and tries to roll away to the beach without him. Dude tracks her down but while in the same mood she tries to roll off and he chases after her and gets hit by a careening car in the rain giving him a bad shin fracture and he loses his chance to go to Mexico since he is on the mend. He kinda takes it out on Josee and gets all mopey since he cant walk for a while (even tho all this stems to the female friend trying to crash the budding relationship between main dude and Josee) Josee draws up a story that is a thin analogy of her relationship with the main dude and how she knows he will be able to recover and "fly" again even if that means leaving Josee. He feels better and does his best in rehab and Josee rolls off again and goes missing, he chases after her in crushes and saves her from a snow hill crash and confesses. They start dating he finishes  healing up and they date long distance in the end her getting a real job and doing her art on the side as he studies abroad. That's where it ends.

So the story shows that people can grow and change and help each other. The girl was a brat but its because of her sheltered up bringing and paralyzed state where she couldn't really escape the cage her Grand Ma kept her in. He helps her grow up and gain confidence and find friends.
While he gets injured because of her and the female friend. When hes at his lowest she does her best to help cheer him up and cheer him on to the best of her limited abilities. Was it the best love story? No, but it was sweet and showed their imperfections rather well. I don't think the movie or the characters deserve the hate they got. Though if any characters deserve hate it's the female friend of the main character telling a cripple girl her first friend only cares for her out of pitty and the Grand Ma for basically keeping Josee under lock and key. For the guy the start it was just a job but he grew to care for the girl behind the layers of sheltered brat her Grand Ma kinda forced on her. He didn't take advantage of her or anything he was just the first one to let her be herself. But that's my opinion you guys will argue anything in the comments. Let me know if you want me to review anything else.

-PhoenixQuill

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