Watching Suzume again today as I recover from a mild cold.
It's such....it's such a weird movie to recommend to people who don't watch anime. Because like, on one hand...it's got giant monsters and talking cats and the romance is between a 17 year old and a grad student who is temporarily cursed to be an animate chair.
But it's also one of the most beautiful portrayals of grief, not just personal grief but communal grief, the loss of people and places and the land itself. It's a celebration of community and small acts of kindness in the face of trauma and mourning. And I honestly feel like it's one of those movie that can deeply touch you as a person.
But it's also about a girl who almost kisses a chair who is cursed by a talking cat. So.
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Maybe more than one award for the whole medium would be nice
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the ever after
buy a wallpaper or leave a tip / twitter / instagram / shop
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Suzume (Makoto Shinkai, 2022)
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Breathtaking openwork decorative round fan, with EMBROIDERED suzume (sparrow) among what I think are nanohana (rapeseed flowers)
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There's something so deeply profound about Suzume's ideas about how people love the land, and how in return the land loves its people. That the separation of people from the places they love is a trauma so deep, not just in the people but in the land itself, these lonely places that are abandoned, that it ripples and builds and breaks the world again.
That you heal that wound by remembering how people loved that place, and then let it go. You remember the love and happiness. And then you return it to the gods. That you grieve the land like you grieve a person- you have to remember it, love it, before you can really heal from its loss.
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★ 【ekakibito (youtube / twt)】 「 1 // 2 」 ☆
✔ republished w/permission
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