Tiny World-Building FTW!
I still have my middle-to-be-forgotten username coming up in my browser suggestions, right under this one. This both humors and saddens me.
Not that I changed it. That I didn't wait for the second name to come to me before changing it the first time!
But, doing away with lachrymosa
(sorry, Evanescence in my head)
and on to GHIBLI
I got to see The Secret World of Arrietty, finally, because I have a friend who is a completest about collecting things and has ALL THE GHIBLI or at least is attempting it
eeeeeeeeep.
The cuteness!
Cuteness untainted by too much moral
(though for a second there, I thought, oh no, blatant preach on preserving nature, have you returned to us? But. It was more subtle, actually)
and yet weighted by enough motivation and core emotion.
Not the strongest, but it followed the main threads of story more closely than the live-adaptation did, even with being moved to Japan.
The ideas that they came up with for translating the world-building of their tiny lives built out of normal human stuff...I'm a sucker for that anyway, but the sound design, too, was very thoughtful about scale, and the dynamics of liquid...
Some notes, not spoilery, since not everyone would notice--Homily has a spinning wheel! Their water-bottle is the kind of cute soy-sauce bottle made small enough to go in a bento. Yes, there are little sausages that come wrapped like candy, like you'll see.
Though a fairly simple storyline, I was very intrigued about the reasons characters acted as they did, and then was surprised a bit by their motivations, even if they could have been obvious on the page.
It's a sweet nostalgic story, played to the strengths of the studio--interesting play with real-world elements morphed, a fascinating minutiae to the sets, a sense of resolution even in an open-ended final scene.
Oh, and spunky girls who love nature!
Not that I changed it. That I didn't wait for the second name to come to me before changing it the first time!
But, doing away with lachrymosa
(sorry, Evanescence in my head)
and on to GHIBLI
I got to see The Secret World of Arrietty, finally, because I have a friend who is a completest about collecting things and has ALL THE GHIBLI or at least is attempting it
eeeeeeeeep.
The cuteness!
Cuteness untainted by too much moral
(though for a second there, I thought, oh no, blatant preach on preserving nature, have you returned to us? But. It was more subtle, actually)
and yet weighted by enough motivation and core emotion.
Not the strongest, but it followed the main threads of story more closely than the live-adaptation did, even with being moved to Japan.
The ideas that they came up with for translating the world-building of their tiny lives built out of normal human stuff...I'm a sucker for that anyway, but the sound design, too, was very thoughtful about scale, and the dynamics of liquid...
Some notes, not spoilery, since not everyone would notice--Homily has a spinning wheel! Their water-bottle is the kind of cute soy-sauce bottle made small enough to go in a bento. Yes, there are little sausages that come wrapped like candy, like you'll see.
Though a fairly simple storyline, I was very intrigued about the reasons characters acted as they did, and then was surprised a bit by their motivations, even if they could have been obvious on the page.
It's a sweet nostalgic story, played to the strengths of the studio--interesting play with real-world elements morphed, a fascinating minutiae to the sets, a sense of resolution even in an open-ended final scene.
Oh, and spunky girls who love nature!