Suzume Movie Review! Anime Dad & Friends
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
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From the creator of Your Name come Suzume, a wonderful story about a girl, a cat, and a talking, three legged chair. Watch to find out what we thought.
A bit of background about the creation of this film: The director of the film, Makoto Shinkai, came up with the idea for the movie when he was touring Japan and talking about his previous works. He noticed there were a lot of abandoned places around Japan, primarily due to Japan's decreasing birth rate. (Japan's population is currently on the decline because of it.) He realized that a lot of these places probably had some sort of opening ceremony or celebration. But they don't typically do that when they close those places down. They just sit there, abandoned and forgotten.
His film was an attempt of sorts to give these places, especially Suzume's hometown of Tohoku, that sort of closure they never got. Tohoku, the location of the last door they locked, was actually a real town just over 12 years ago. But, now, it sits abandoned, destroyed by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami (nicknamed "3.11", the date the earthquake hit; America has 9/11 while Japan has 3.11), the same one that famously led to the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown. Rescue efforts were hindered by low temperatures and snowfall caused by the tsunami, the same snowstorm we see young Suzume walking through at one point.
It's... honestly really sad that a lot of those places will never be lived in or used ever again.
Talking kitty gets all my money everytime
This movie was also an attempt to teach Japan's younger generation that this was a very real event that influenced thousands, if not millions of people, including people they may know. The earthquake happened in 2011. There are people alive today who are reading about that horrible event in history books. Makoto Shinkai actually had the idea for this movie in 2011 but sat on it until now because he finally felt it was time.
One interesting detail about Suzume, the movie's protagonist: much like many of the people Makoto Shinkai was trying to reach with this movie, Suzume, despite having lived through 3.11 and having survived it, has no memory of it, only the occasional dream.
The only real memory she has of it was that she lost the chair her mom made for her (which, when you first hear about it in the movie, sounds odd: how do you lose a chair?) and that "her mom" (who was actually her future self) eventually found and gave it back to her, but it was missing a leg.
Loved the film! One of the coolest parts about the art style is that all of those locations are real places. To talk about this movie in greater detail, I would need to watch it a couple of more times, but, in general, Suzume deals with generational loss and traumatic events and the door closers tap into the happier times in order to heal the wounds and close the doors. It was very subtle, but Suzume lost her mother when she was four to a typhoon and became lost in the snow looking for her. Suzume's aunt saved her life after she was sent back through the door from the afterlife, which is why she could see the doors and the worm. Such a great movie, I cannot wait to watch it again.
I just saw it for the second time and bought the soundtrack.
I just saw the movie today really enjoyed it and the cat was fantastic
Miss ya man, also I loved Suzume 👍🏼
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