I love this description quite inordinately, and I'm now very intrigued about this movie!

Thank you! I wish I had thought of it for the review itself. [edit: I determined that it is my journal and I get to add lines to reviews even that people have commented on if I want.] The movie is uneven—I want the television version to have survived so that I can check my suspicion that it was more tonally consistent and tighter—but I really like George and his dilemma and its resolution, which I still feel is the sort of thing that happens to people in anime.