My Cultural Diet

After he’s given a mobile phone for his birthday, Yuta’s dying mom asks him to record her final days, which he then uses to create a movie that shocks all of his classmates. All of them, that is, except for the enigmatic Eri, who insists that Yuta become a filmmaker and create something new. As Goodbye, Eri unfolds, Tatsuki Fujimoto — best known for creating Chainsaw Man — piles on the layers of meta-ness, with Yuta’s new film shifting from semi-autobiographical to something else entirely. Goodbye, Eri does say some interesting things about nostalgia and the unreliable-ness of memory, and it does have some genuinely touching moments. Ultimately, however, Fujimoto is more interested in twists and turns than emotional resonance as Goodbye, Eri increasingly calls into question everything that happens within its pages.

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