I didn't like the new Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution film. But within the scenes in the story, I did pick up some new perspectives on things. The Japanese filmmakers who make these films include a lot of valuable philosophy in their work, and if you pay attention, you get wiser. Here are two new ways of thinking that I picked up at the cinema while watching this film:

  1. Don't try to change the past. Going back to older situations or environments to try to alter what happened doesn't work. It's like how we buy books that we don't read, but since we bought those books at a certain time in our lives, if we ever try to go back to read those books later on, it won't be the same because the now has shifted and we won't be operating with the same perspective as we did when we bought those books. So, we are trying to make up for time that's lost, but that's just not how life works since we are constantly only living in the now.
  2. Many of us grow up without a role model. We have been taught to see this as a negative, but in reality, mistakes make us strong because we constantly learn. So growing up without one and making mistakes makes us wiser as time passes if we choose to learn from those mistakes. A role model guides you away from these mistakes, and there is value in that. But on the opposite side of things, there is a world of adventure and information to explore, which is through mistakes.

These good anime films from Japan, in general, are loaded with information that helps us conduct ourselves with virtue as our priority in life. There's a lot to learn from them.