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Hayao Miyazaki tops North American box office for first time with ‘The Boy and the Heron (edition.cnn.com)
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[–] lemmylickyourfanfan@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It was nice to watch in the cinema, but hot damn did it make no sense to me at all.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It made perfect sense!

Stuff happened and then it was implied at the end none of it mattered.

Very pretty though.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

I just watched grave of the fireflies. Same thing applies.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That has me worried. I haven't seen it yet, but this is the third comment I've seen about it being confusing or moving too fast.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Ghibli has taken a steady course since around Spirited Away or Howl's Moving Castle to be weird for the sake of it. I like surreal elements in media, but it seems like they've been used as a crutch for good storytelling. I actually haven't watched anything by them since Ponyo, and it sounds like I won't enjoy this one either.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It had an odd flow to it, like entire pieces of the story were cut.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Felt like they heard about chekhov's gun and took it as a challenge. Every thing that comes up that you feel like will be important to the resolution of the movie simply isn't. Any point that isn't resolved in the scence it's introduced probably won't be resolved.

So if pieces were cut I would love to know cause it was a strange experience.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Hollywood has been known to do that to anime. I wonder if there are any deleted scenes

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This movie made me wonder if Japanese people do not care when birds shit on them. So much bird shit in this movie, and nobody batted an eye.

[–] June@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

I laughed every time I saw that. So much bird shit