{"id":58114,"date":"2023-04-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=58114"},"modified":"2023-11-16T19:53:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T03:53:55","slug":"review-suzume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/04\/14\/review-suzume\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Suzume"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My expectations for a <\/span>Makoto Shinkai<\/b> film have changed over the years. Pre-<\/span>Your Name<\/span><\/i>, I hoped the director would keep producing melancholic dramas about people separated by distance (although I didn\u2019t mind the Ghibli-esque fantasy <\/span>Children Who Chase Lost Voices<\/span><\/i>). Now, I just wish for his new films to be <\/span>almost<\/span><\/i> as good as that fun yet affecting 2016 title, while also not being <\/span>too<\/span><\/i> reminiscent of it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…Suzume<\/em>‘s major sequences are accompanied by epic instrumental scores and haunting chants that are easily the movie’s greatest strengths.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Suzume<\/span><\/i> doesn\u2019t manage the \u201cbe almost as good as <\/span>Your Name<\/span><\/i>\u201d part, thanks to some missteps that undermine its enjoyable successes, but it does succeed in establishing an identity of its own. (Although it would be overly mean to call Weathering With You<\/i> a clone of Shinkai\u2019s US$382 million-grossing juggernaut, Shinkai\u2019s second post-Your Name<\/i> film draws less immediate comparisons.) <\/span>Suzume<\/span><\/i> takes the form of a road trip movie where its titular teenage heroine (Nanoka <\/b><\/span>Hara<\/b>), following an encounter with the mysterious Sota (<\/span>Hokuto Matsumura<\/b>), finds herself traveling across Japan to stop a giant worm-like entity from escaping through a series of doors (causing earthquakes in the process) and bringing disaster. Sota comes from a line of Closers capable of locking these doors, but he needs Suzume\u2019s help when the white cat-like Daijin, a supernatural being who Suzume inadvertently freed, turns him into Suzume\u2019s childhood chair.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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