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Devon 2022-12-12 03:31:17

After watching this movie, the movie is really very good. It controls the emotions of children very well, delicate and gentle, and the production is also very well-made. If I have to say, I am probably not used to anime-like faces and realism. I always find it a bit strange, but it doesn't have much impact. If I want to talk about it, it may be that the rhythm is too smooth. In fact, apart from movies, I want to talk more about Takahata Isao. It feels like what Mamoru Oshii said in the book. It's a pity. He is obviously a very talented director who can be his own director. I think he is no less than Gong in every aspect. Hayao Saki, however, his directing works are really too few, and he has always been a support position in Ghibli, which is a pity. The faint sense of daily life in this work, the gentle sense of time passing, is very similar to Yasujiro Ozu, but Ozu's daily life also has a serious sense. This work is also full of love for nature and rural life, but this love is not the same as Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki's love is more "big love" from the perspective of the environment, while he is more Yes, a kind of "private love" of my own, but it is very generous, which is really good.

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  • Hirota: Rainy days, cloudy days, sunny days... which do you like?

    Taeko: ...cloudy days.

    Hirota: Oh, then we're alike.

  • Taeko: The king of fruit is... the king of fruit is...

    [the scene flashes from 1966 to 1989]

    Taeko: ...the banana!