01/01/2024

The start of the year I saw Hayao Miyazaki's newest masterpiece, The Boy and The Heron.

Or... How Do You Live?

Honestly, it was worth it skipping all the trailers, this movie is astounding!

Just seeing all the painted details in the backgrounds makes it so much authentic. There's a lot of animation projects trying to make things as "realistic" as possible, especially with Weathering with You recently. It's the little things that matter, it's why I absolutely adore impressionism as an art form.

The story was slow; that's the best thing about it. A lot of movies try to be as fast as possible, and so much of that would end up being pretty forgetful. This movie is a perfect balance, added with Miyazaki's direction of leaving long pauses between each moment (known as "ma" in case you didn't know!)

I was watching the dubbed version of this, and safe to say they did a great job!

Look, it doesn't matter which version is better, but switching between reading the clunky words and being engrossed in the scenary is like trying to look at a painting while looking at a wiki article about it at the same time. It's distracting! I'd rather be in the environment if I say so myself.

Also, Robert Pattinson was fucking amazing. I got him confused with Willem DeFoe, kinda strange how they're both in the same film about birds...

From The Lighthouse

Also, how the hell did Christian Bale manage to sound younger? I can't wait to do that when I enroll in acting!

Welp, just finished my delicious yaki soba as I'm writing this. I'm gonna do some essay work when I get back and also finish that lucario piece. The colouring's all that needs to be done!

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