Nov 13, 2022
watched it on release in Japan.
1. Visual, camera work is as always, top notch
2. Theme is very good, original. It's about earthquake, mainly the upcoming mega quake that is about to hit Japan. The area that will likely to be hit was the city that our protagonist visited in the movie, From Kyushuu, Ehime, Kobe, Tokyo. I like the journey a lot since it shows the local feeling, places, food, etc.
The final place she visited was Sendai, it was destroyed during the big earthquake a decade ago, hence the door. I really like the way they focus on door locking.
Even though places were destroyed, there
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were people living their normal lives there, and the journey they showed us were the normal lives that would be lost in the upcoming megaquake.
3. Song is OK, I never really like Radwimps song, but the main song Suzume is very good.
4. The con, it would be the character development or relationship between the 2 protagonist. It felt too rushed and unnatural compared to Shinkai previous movies. I couldn't understand the reason why she bothered to look for him in the 1st place, why she likes him? I feel that if Shinkai invest another 30min to their relationship it would be better, but time constraint perhaps.
I wanted to give it a 7.5 (max) but oh well, it is good, but is it very good (8)? Not really, I like Shinkai's work because of his touch in animation also the bittersweet romance, but this one just butchered the romance part. He doesn't have to force the romance if he doesn't have enough time to build it up, why force it? I don't understand.
I watched Shinkai's work since 5cm, way before he was famous for Your Name, so yeah, I am a big fan but not a simp. He could do better than this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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