This summer, I stumbled across several summer-themed animations on the Internet. At first sight, he was heartbroken. I found out that these pictures are from "Marnie in Memories", so I put this movie in the list of movies I want to watch. It wasn't until the winter that I found a spare afternoon to finish watching the show.
The content of this play is adapted from the children's literature works of the British novelist Joan G. Robinson, but the director carefully transplanted the original British background to Japan, and referenced Hokkaido, Kushiro, Akkeishi, Nemuro, etc. In the real scene of the land, even Marnie, one of the blond heroines, is more inclined to Asian aesthetics in the drawing.
The pattern of the whole plot is not big, and it tells the story of a girl's self-growth. But after I left my girlhood, I was told by director Mi Lin Hongchang that I was in my old days.
The girl Anna in the film, when she was very young, her parents died in a car accident, she spent a short but beautiful time with her grandmother Marnie. After my grandmother passed away, relatives felt that she was a burden and put her up for adoption. It was an unbearable pain in Xing Nai's heart, and it also laid a hidden danger for her self-loathing in her teenage years.
The harmony of the new family can't erase Anna's hidden pain, especially when she found out that her adoptive parents had received government support subsidies without telling her, and her heart became even heavier. She became withdrawn and closed, refusing to be approached and cared by anyone. After an asthma attack, her adoptive mother decided to send her to relatives in the country for recuperation.
Agatha Christie once said: "Young people are too vulnerable. So ruthless, so sure, so generous, so demanding." All because half-baked girls are sensitive and thoughtful, and their minds are as dense as rain feet. There will be preconceived prejudices in dealing with external things. Annie in the movie, unable to see the care of her adoptive mother, instead embarked on a journey of self-redemption with the gloomy idea of being abandoned.
In a rural village, Anna found the Wetland Mansion. As if time and space are intertwined, she becomes friends with her grandmother Marnie, who lived in the mansion as a child. They have what each other lacks, envy each other, encourage and accompany each other. But Marnie's departure without saying goodbye once again made Anna feel like an abandoned person.
In the process of looking for Marnie, Anna made new friends such as Cai Xiang, and gradually learned to open her heart. She discovers that Marnie and Marnie's stories are real, but happened many years ago. When she was very young, her grandmother told her these stories. Over time, these things seem to be forgotten, but remain in the subconscious. Until approaching the Wetland Mansion, the desire and call for family affection made Anna return to her grandmother's childhood in an almost imaginary way, and forged a deep friendship with her.
In the end, Annai forgave Marnie for leaving without saying goodbye, and also forgave her relatives for leaving her alone in this world, unraveling the knot of her adoptive parents. In this friendship with Marnie, Anna has gained self-growth and redemption.
Love may be covered up, misunderstood, temporarily forgotten, but it will never die. The show conveys such a warm theme: about love and self-redemption. In addition, the beautiful summer countryside scenery, the sacred and lively summer festival temple fair, the girls wearing beautiful yukatas, and walking with lanterns on the country roads are all wonderful things that this drama deserves to be reminisced over and over again.
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