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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This movie pissed me off enough to copy and paste this rant to several people in my life:
Take a beautiful stop-motion family film, set it in ancient Japan with gorgeous animation and a charming form of magic that’s based in music and origami. Make me fall in love with the storyteller protagonist and his mother who suffers from depression after a brutal TBI. Introduce themes of loss, grief, and remembrance through shared stories.
Then kill the mother off (kinda…
I think I’m starting in the right place, watching this to try out French New Wave
Content warning, there’s some physical abuse in this that is treated as normal and even made light of.
Otherwise, it’s Jackie Chan pushing the limit of what he can put his body through in terms of punishing combat and stunts. Funny and thrilling.