a movie that reminds you of childhood

Today I am going to talk about a movie that in my opinion has been undervalued, due to its calm plot and slow pace, a beautiful work that I personally enjoy every time I watch it.

This is a Japanese animated film released in 1991, written and directed by the great Isao Takahata, one of the founders of Ghibli Studios (a studio to which I am very fond) together with Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki , logically the animation of this movie is in charge of this studio.

Synopsis

the movie is about a girl named Taeko, who goes on a trip to the countryside to find herself, taking with her her 10-year-old self, throughout the trip Taeko has constant flashbacks from her childhood that she overcomes as she meets in that place.

yes, the synopsis seems quite simple right? I don't want to discriminate against anyone here, but I think this movie would be enjoyed much more by the female audience, and one or another man with enough sensitivity to identify.

(so sit down prepare something to drink because this is one of my endless posts haha)

CURIOSITIES

all moviegoers here know the Rotten Tomatoes website, well this movie has a 100% rating on that website, a rating I more than agree with, the movie deserves all the recognition, it is a piece of art in every way.

The movie is based on a manga released in 1987 with the same title as the movie in Japanese "omohide poro poro" made by the mangacas Hotaru Ukamoto and Yuko Tone, a fairly simple story that dealt with the day-to-day life of the little 10 year old Taeko.

Takahata wanted to adapt the story to a movie, but this would be difficult since the story in the manga lacked a solid plot line, so he came up with an idea, he would take the stories from the little Taeko manga and write another story where reflect Taeko's adult life.

It is confirmed that Takahata was the most realistic side of Ghibli and the animation style of this movie reflects it very well, in many of the previous Ghibli productions we could see a fantastic type of animation, but not as realistic as this one, in the that we could see the expressions in all their splendor and that was exactly Takahata's goal, although it was much harder to achieve this type of animation, he achieved it very well, Takahata wanted to capture how the muscles of the face move when laughing as they close the eyes and the face is transformed.

without a doubt a great work very advanced for the time, due to the great workload involved in achieving this type of animation Takahata made a contrast that in my opinion was very good, leaving the flashback of the little girl Taeko with the traditional Ghibli animation style and her adult scenes with Takahata's experimental style (great job).

the landscapes in this movie are especially detailed and to the surprise of no one (fans) it is well known that most of the Ghibli landscapes are taken from real landscapes, and this is still the case, in the early nineties Takahata took the entire team of animators to a rural area in the Takase district of Yamagata to learn what life was like in the countryside, the landscape seen in the movie looks remarkably similar, the Cartamo flowers are delicately detailed, Takahata wanted to capture the hard work that life entailed in that place and it was all captured in Taeko's journey.

there is a documentary of the step by step realization of this movie, from where I base myself to give you these curiosities it is very fanatic to watch documentaries haha ​​but if you are interested I will leave it  here.

MY REVIEW

Where do I begin?

this movie has its own identity shouts Takahata wherever you see it, Takahata has a realistic style telling earthly stories with family dynamics and showing the customs of Japanese society.

It is no surprise the wonderful reviews that this movie has, it is very easy to identify with this one due to all the flashbacks that we see through the eyes of Taeko as an adult.

who has not mentally traveled to their childhood? remembering all the things we went through as children and laughing at our childishness, how innocent we were back then and our first love.

the movie is calm, emotional without going overboard, and quite pleasant so much so that you can't look away, at least that's what happened to me, it's impressive how our children are too big for us, those conflicts that made us heavy as children like leaving aside an ingredient in the food that we did not like, the irrational fights with our siblings (for those we have) when we were capricious, or when a school subject was difficult for us, everything is perfectly captured so that you feel a great nostalgia without import the cultural difference of the movie.

The film shows us how Taeko faces a personal conflict, in which she is not satisfied with her present, she feels that she does not belong to the place where she is, which leads her in search of a trip to find herself, what else? reality check want?

I have nothing to criticize about this movie, I wouldn't dare, without a doubt this could be along with "the grave of the fireflies" one of the best works of the great Isao Takahata a name that deserves respect and recognition.

If you have come this far, I want to thank you for reading, and I would like you to tell me a memory of your childhood that you have in mind, anything, I READ THEM!

Here I leave one of my favorite scenes from the movie.

without more to say, with love Aliss