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Choisai

It felt like it went on and on and on. Too many emotional climaxes, "I save you and now I need to be saved" and "I scream out my feelings with tears in my eyes" moments. Not well dosed and paced.

1 year 6 months ago

Elementary school is over and a group of kids find themselves sneaking into the condemned apartment building where they used to live. Suddenly, the building it out at sea, drifting to parts unknown and the kids are thrown into a survival situation. Then things get weirder still. The movie is Drifting Home - a play on words signifying the building, but also that sense of growing apart from others while necessarily moving closer to who you were always going to be (i.e. "home") - the director is Penguin Highway's Hiroyasu Ishida. While there are several relationships worth caring about, the heart of the film is the broken friendship of Natsume and Kosuke, the mystery behind which unfolds as the building-ship coasts along in what can only be called a housing afterlife. The theme of moving on is strong, and much of the drama stems from the kids having a difficult time saying goodbye to a former home and the memories they associate with it. But from the top view, it's also about letting go past trauma, or just simply, the Past with a capital P. They may only be moving on to Junior High, but it's still a big step. Sometimes, you need to leave childish things and behaviors behind. It's very charming, pleasantly original, and well characterized. I don't need to sell you on the technical quality of high-end anime, though in this case, I'm deducting some points for the Netflix (non HD) presentation, which seemed to pixelate some weather effects and such. Not too many points, as I bet the movie looks tons better in HD/not on streamers.

1 year 7 months ago