2014 ‘思い出のマーニー’ Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
Studio Ghibli Hakuhodo DY Media Partners KDDI Corporation Mitsubishi Motors Corporation Nippon Television Network Corporation
Omoide no Mânî, Коли Мані була тут, Kada je Marni bila tu, Omoide no Mani, Спогади Мані, Коли Марні була тут, Marnie – min hemmelige venninne
CW: indirect abuse reference
It's so easy to feel like you don't have a family. One small thing, one small moment, can rupture bonds that we're told hold tighter and stronger than any other. Family is so fragile, because the promise inherent in every story told about families is so profound. Anything can shatter that impossible illusion. It can be the perception that your mother is being paid to have you, or it can be the way your father yelled that one time, or it can be... worse things. For queer or trans kids, of course, all other things being equal, family tends to be even more fragile than for straight and cisgender kids. Surrounded by images that tell us…
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It’s fitting that the last Studio Ghibli film for the foreseeable future is a simple, elegiac story about a young woman who learns the power of *drawing* from the past.
no, it's not Miyazaki or Takahata, but it's the next best thing.
on my way out of the movie, I saw an old woman walk directly into a wall because she was crying so hard. she seemed okay.
#FrozenFever
I saw When Marnie Was There this morning. By evening I was on my way to the theater to see it again. That's a first for me.
It wasn't just that my local cinema provided both dubbed and subtitled screenings. Sure, I wanted to see both versions. But more than that, I wanted to return to the world of this movie because it stirred some deep nerve cluster that connected my childhood to my adulthood. That's a quality that I've found time and time again in Studio Ghibli's films.
I hope this isn't their last. I really do. But if it is, as sad as that is, I'll remain grateful for this last flare of color, motion, sound, and the…
Have you ever been unhappy with everyone and yourself but don’t know why? Alone because you either hurt the ones who come close or because you choose it to be that way. Nothing they do upsets you, you’re just upset with the world around you. You feel just there, not depressed, not happy. There like a tree. You feel like crying because you don’t whose fault it is. It can’t be anyone else’s. Something has to be wrong with you. So you end up hating who you are. No one listens to you, no one hears you, but you hardly share anyways. You’ve usually been comfortable with who you are, you’re on the outside, solitaire But today the sting is…
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Studio Ghibli were sitting around their office wondering what they should do next.
"Hey I got one."
*yawning*
"Yeah, go on then."
"How about we make one of the most precise, identifiable and moving films about social anxiety and childhood displacement ever made. One that treats children with respect and will also speak to all the adults watching."
"Ahh, what the hell. Let's do it."
And they did. Absolutely wonderful.
Hiromasa Yonebayashi's 2014 When Marnie Was There, based on Joan G. Robinson novel of the same name, follows Anna, a young girl who temporarily moves to Norfolk to heal after becoming ill. There she meets a mysterious girl named Marnie who lives in a house overlooking the marshes and quickly develops a unique bond with her.
Going into any Ghibli film, we've all come to expect deeper, more meaningful messages from every entry and When Marnie Was There is once again no different. Dealing with friendship, loneliness, abandonment and forgiveness, the film truly puts into perspective the struggles of adolescence really well. It's fair to say there isn't much that surprises me about films to do with adolescence, I've lived…
Wow. I truly wasn't expecting that. At first the movie was slow going, seemed overtly sad and just kind of depressing for the sake of being depressing. Once the story starts to kick in though and the titular character is introduced, things shift greatly and we end up getting an emotionally resonant story about the loneliness of youth, the importance of friends and the undeniable impact of family. I'm definitely going to watch this one again once the english dub get's released, it's got a great cast and I'd love to go through this one a second time. Given this could be Ghibli's last feature, there is an even deeper underlying melancholy to the film. Seek it out, fans of animation and especially Ghibli will not be disappointed.
I wish I could go somewhere beautiful and far away to make new friends, and have my issues resolved...
this film was lovely and haunting.
i forgot what the plot twist of this movie was and when i was figured out what happened i was distraught all over again 😭
my god what a BEAUTIFUL movie. i felt like i was transported to another world (i know its a cliché phrase but i really did feel like it) and it just got better and better, gently piecing everything together by the end and it was perfect!! not many endings leave you completely satisfied
watching this as someone with no real friends....yeah.......*sobs*
the song at the end got me
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