![]() ![]() She's a young girl who's confident, kind, and capable, but is still unsure of herself at time. Arrietty is another in the long line of string Ghibli heroines, but like all of them manages somehow to be unique and wonderful all by herself. The characters are for the most part wonderful as well, though in some ways more subdued than Miyazaki tends to make his own. So many magical scenes like this made up the entire movie, but that was perhaps the best of them all. That entire scene, where they use ingeniously use tiny household items to scale the counters to raid for sugar cubes a third their size, is simply amazing to watch. When Arrietty and her father final exit from between the walls into the darkened kitchen at night, the sheer enormity of the room, the intense sound of the looming and massive refrigerator, the sheer walls that compromise the sides of cabinets, they all take the breath out of both Arrietty and the viewer. ![]() Far bellow a few mice, the size of lions, scurry in the gloom, their eyes burning red. They walk nimbly across nails sticking out from the foundations of the building, use construction staples as ladders, bouldering over the to them boulder sized junk lost between the walls of the house. Perhaps my favorite scene is one where, very mild spoilers here, Arrietty's father takes her borrowing for the first time. The sheer size of everything in comparison to them is striking, creating a strange world of adventure and dangers that are really just the most common, ignored of things to us humans. Every part of their home, located beneath a pile of unused bricks stored under the human house, is made of small everyday items we hardly think about forgot junk that the Borrowers used so well as tools, furniture, decoration, everything. What is easily one of the standout points of the movie was how incredibly immersive the tiny world of the Borrowers was. There are many aspects of the film that deserve mention for how damn well-done they were the beautiful animation, the strong voice-work, the great characters, the fantastic music. This really makes me beyond excited to see what Yonebashi does in the future. And it was so hard to believe this was his first film I often feel like I should give Miyazaki Goro some slack for Earthsea because it was his first movie, but Arrietty just seemed so well thought-out and put together comparatively. While Miyazaki's screen writing clearly had some great effects on the movie, I could really feel the new directorial style of Yonebashi shining through. On the other hand, it had a unique feeling of bittersweet melancholy and wonderful character interactions somehow unlike most of the films that have come before it. Fantastically detailed world of a Miyazaki movie. ![]()
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