Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece adapts a favorite book into a favorite story, where magic meets philosophy. Our The Boy and the Heron review:
before its Japanese release earlier this year was that it is in some form an adaptation of filmmaker andHow Do You Live?
is styled as the fantasy Bildungsroman that he became famous for—with a mature, edgier bent. The opening sequence depicts a 1943 firebombing, rendered with striking animation that entirely breaks with the art style of the rest of the film, veering into the abstract. Mahito’s ill mother dies in the flames. The sequence is revisited several times throughout the film as a traumatic memory, first experienced and then solidified as a nightmare where fire and shadow and all the people in between blur.
The spirits find Mahito, feverish and delirious, on the family’s rural estate. A particularly nettlesome gray heron harasses the boy, drawing him towards the site of his coming-of-age journey. His guide hereafter is apprehensive, the fantasies tainted with death and decay. These antagonistic relationships differ from the hostility undergirding the environmental commentary in the likes of, and that comes through in their animation.
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