I liked the recent anime film A Silent Voice more, a coming-of-age drama following characters from nasty school drama to adulthood, which touches on similar issues but with a lot more characterisation and arcs. It could be because of the younger Ghibli men working on this, it's possible they're projecting their frustrations of women onto Rikako as a target for hate by the audience. I don't think it's just me who picks up an angry young male view of women. However, he quickly changes his views when a pretty woman comes onto the scene. Which sounds almost misogynistic or MGTOW. The thing is, can it be seen that the film's goal was to make the main female character a villain? Earlier on, Taku says this: It really comes across that just because Rikako is pretty, Taku will forgive her. My issue is unlike Yutaka, the film doesn't show Rikako making amends for her past horrible and manipulative behaviour, so it's harder for the audience to accept that Taku would forgive her so easily. The credit paintings seem to show that Taku and Rikako become a couple. So, when Yumi says Rikako is looking forward to seeing "a guy who sleeps in a bathtub", that's enough for Taku to forgive her probably. Taku gets punched by his best friend Yutaka Matsuno because of this drama, but after 6 years he makes amends and Taku seems pretty forgiving about it. The only explanation I have for its happy ending is after 6 years, maybe Rikako isn't such a bitch anymore? Like Yumi says about "changing seats", maybe outside of the context of school drama, she could have become a better person in all that time. So, I just finished watching Ocean Waves too, and it certainly stands out amongst the Ghibli films for its neorealist style and relationship drama. That's the only explanation I can piece together as to why this movie turned out the way it did. (Frankly Ghibli should have been doing stuff like this continuously to prep the next generation.) However, they keep making note about how they had total creative freedom and no supervision.
Apparently this was a project done by, at the time, the more novice, younger staff at Ghibli to get their feet wet. I watched a behind the scenes featurette trying to get an idea of what they were trying to convey with the film. It's like they told the first half of a story and then just figured you'd imagine the other half? We're just suppose to assume they all grew as people? Then they run into each-other and that's it. After which he hilariously proclaims that he loves her and wants to see her. At this point, the movie literally shows all the times she was awful and shitty towards him while endearing music is playing and he's swooning. Then the movie fast-forwards ten years, and during their reunion, the one dude reminisces about her. I kept waiting for some sort of character growth to occur. (While staying cemented in the friend-zone mind you.) As she keeps being awful, both dudes start talking about how much they, uh, love her for whatever reason, and keep enabling her. And.he keeps obliging and being complicit. She keeps getting into sticky situations cause of her crap decisions, and repeatedly calls on the one guy to help her out of it. And it's not even played up in a hammy manner like in fan-service-y tsundere anime. The girl is shown blatantly and over and over to be selfish, inconsiderate, mean, spoiled, bratty, and immature. However, the movie goes out of its way to make sure all three characters are completely unlikable. The other dude is more background material. It's more about the dynamics and relationship with one of the guys and the girl. There's a love triangle, but it's not really amped up or a thing that goes anywhere. For those that haven't seen it, this is about three school-kids: Two boys who are friends and a girl. Visually it just looks so endearing.īUT, I've never been so confused by the intent of a movie. We watched the remaster on bluray, and some of the scenes really look like they have a visible difference between the background and the celluloid animation sheets.
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