![]() I haven’t seen this movie in a while, but I forgot how much the first eight minutes just drags you in with the sense of impending doom and dozens of questions. Yet they also have to avoid the clutches of Lord Cob, a wizard who still has his powers and hopes to take advantage of the imbalance to gain eternal life, as they try to find a way to save the land from complete destruction. Along the way, Arren comes across an Archmage named Sparrowhawk, and they travel together to see how the imbalance has shaken the people and cities of the land. Just as the King of Elad starts investigating this imbalance, he is suddenly killed by his own son, Prince Arren, who flees from home. Wizards are losing their powers, livestock and crops are rapidly dying, and dragons are fighting. The land of Earthsea is in a chaotic state. Let’s see what he has to bring to one of the greatest powerhouses of storytelling. Tales from Earthsea marks the first Ghibli film directed by Goro Miyazaki, Hayao’s son. It’s a little hard for me to find too much to say about it, and I’m not sure if it was meant to be longer, but hopefully you can get an idea if this movie is something up your alley. I don’t feel like I got to know them as well as say Shizuku and Seiji from Whisper of the Heart.īut again, for what it is, it’s a simple but sweet story. For what it is as a simplistic slice-of-life story, it’s still well-paced, but I definitely can’t help but wonder how different everything would have turned out if we spent just a little more time developing the romance or the students fighting against the demolition. With this being one of the shorter Ghibli films at only an hour and a half, there’s not as much time to make the characters completely three-dimensional or expand their dilemmas. That being said, I wish I could have seen more. There’s also nice little historical details like the student rebellions emerging in the 1960s, modernization versus preservation, and the mentalities of children in a post-World War II/Korean War environment. It’s also pretty neat to see the girl power at work, showing the boys how it’s done to create a good impression to save the building. I don’t know if I’m just a sucker for these stories or what, but it’s still really sweet to see the two main leads’ lives, how lost they feel without certain familial connections, and how they always end up closer despite everything against them you’re still left hoping things will turn out differently, and they’ll get together.Īnd I love seeing them work off their classmates and coming together to fix up the clubhouse in this fun montage with popping jazz music. In some instances it’s kinda cliche and corny, but there’s also this charm to its simplistic story. That’s really all about there is to it it’s just another shoujo, slice-of-life film. As Umi gets closer to these students in working with the newspaper club, she brings in the female student body to help renovate the building and give them a better fighting chance to stop the demolition. Despite a mass movement to keep the building, many of the male students inside are awkward shut-ins who just want to fight. While that’s going on, an old building which holds many school clubs may be demolished as part of major renovations with the Summer Olympics coming to Tokyo. Yet new secrets of their pasts emerge which might force them apart. Despite initial failure, the more the two cross paths and hang out, the more they find they might actually like each other. Well these flags catch the attention of one of her classmates, Shun Kazama, who tries to gain her interest. As her father passed away during the Korean War, she’s had to grow up faster than most and take a lot of responsibility in cooking, cleaning, and even raising signal flags early in the morning, praying for safe voyages. We follow a high school girl, Umi Matsuzaki, who lives with her siblings, her grandmother, and two working women while her mother is studying abroad. **Reposted from my Tumblr, elizas-writing, as of December 6th, 2018**Īnother film directed by Goro Miyazaki which is also another one of the more slice-of-life Ghibli movies, this is From Up on Poppy Hill.
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