love memory

Aaliyah 2022-10-06 22:15:22

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Hayao Miyazaki retired, Ghibli made a new attempt in "Marnie in Memory". The protagonist Anna, surrounded by loneliness, transformed her soul in a seaside city. Constructing the context of the film, in the beautiful and ethereal style of painting, that trace of depression due to life experience, although a little gloomy, will touch the heart of the growing pain.

The delicate shaping of the children's hearts and emotions in the adult stage is the biggest highlight of the movie. As the adopted daughter, Xing Na, because of her own background and asthma, began to become inferior and gloomy, denying doubts to others, and even resisting emotions. Marnie in Memories" at the beginning through Anna who was sitting alone and drawing, and the beginning when she opened up her heart but was accidentally interrupted, it vividly expressed Anna's self-abasement and withdrawn character in the growing period. On one point, "Marnie in Memory" is different from the fresh and lively shaping of characters in Hayao Miyazaki's works. The more realistic characters are more of a resonance for growth.


After Xing Na came to the seaside city, she began to use a method of intertwining reality and reality to reflect the evolution of the heroine's soul. At this time, she was out of tune with the environment she was in, and she still kept herself in a relatively closed world. When she meets Marnie, a transformation begins. Marnie is actually a character derived from Annie's childhood memories and self-imagination. All the seemingly scattered and mysterious clues are actually foreshadowing the final emotional climax. The technique makes people realize the sincerity of the movie at the end, just like a good cup of tea leaves the fragrance on the cheeks, with a long aftertaste.

"Marnie in Memories" follows the impeccable style of Hayao Miyazaki's era. What one can see is the breakthrough of director Mirin Hongchang in the expression of animated films, although such a breakthrough is still difficult to form Hayao Miyazaki. The level of the peak era, there is still a greenness in the story, but it is still particularly rare to be able to complete the sublimation of emotion and sincerity in an illusory imagination. The friendship of the same place, the memory of love is so touching.


In fact, many people in the growing phase have experienced the pain of loneliness. It is not time that can cure this pain, but the memory of love. In fact, each of us has such a Marnie in our hearts, it's just whether you want to go Wake her up and follow her heart.

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When Marnie Was There quotes

  • Anna Sasaki: I hate myself.

  • Anna Sasaki: She whines like an old goat.