I have seen someone say that one of the most important reasons for thinking a movie is good is that you can see your own shadow in this movie. I believe that many people who like this movie have seen their own shadow in Anna. "12 years old, it is indeed a difficult age to get along with." The doctor's words seemed to hit the memories of many people. What are we like at the age of 12? Just entering adolescence, reading some hypocritical romance novels, pondering over delicate and fragile friendships, and encountering some things that don't seem to be important now feel like a big deal. At that time, our world was small and miniature, and any small thing would make us sensitive and vulnerable, withdrawn and lonely.
Her former self and Anna have very similar personalities. Extremely timid and shy and afraid to communicate with the outside world, he likes to be quiet in his own world, hide in the corner of his own world, and carefully watch people and things outside. I have never been a confident child. Whenever I feel a little inferior in my heart, I will still hide there, come out when I am most vulnerable, and wake me up. Like Anna, I know that my personality is related to some of the family education I received in my childhood. I have also seen a report saying that confident children are children who can be unconditionally loved by their parents. So Anna's gloom is just because she, who is sensitive and vulnerable, is doubting how much love she has received.
Without seeing the end of the film, I had a lot of speculation about the theme of the film: is it about the taste of loneliness or growing up? Is it about friendship or taboo homosexuality? Is it about magic or about schizophrenia? I don't know why, but for such a specific period of time, I envied Anna's loneliness. Just like Lin Shaohua said "taste loneliness" when evaluating Haruki Murakami's works. Everyone is inherently afraid of loneliness, if it is really lonely? Then take it easy and savor it. I have always admired this attitude. However, you cannot truly experience this feeling until you experience true loneliness. Although 12-year-old Anna does not want others to take care of her affairs, she is also afraid of loneliness. Because she is afraid of losing again and being deceived and abandoned, she will instinctively push away those who try to get close to her. She longed to find someone who could truly love her, someone who would not abandon her or abandon her.
The end of the story is as beautiful and warm as ever, which is one of the reasons why we find Studio Ghibli movies so healing. Xing Nai knew her own background, understood her adoptive mother, and regained her confidence. Complete and beautiful.
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