I'm gonna keep my review as short as this movie should have been: Divinity is a wank-ass garbage film.
No, I'm not going to bother explaining why.
Charming and relatable, as so many Norstein works tend to be. I had a lot of fun watching this!
While visually gorgeous and beautifully (although forgettably) scored, The Boy and the Heron feels way too similar to other Miyazaki movies to leave a lasting impression on me. In fact, it feels like this movie is a potpurri of all the familiar Ghibli tropes and motifs - magical realism; strange and parallell worlds; a young, stoic main character dealing with grief and learning to move on; humans as agents of corruption; cute little creatures being cute; antropomorphic animals, and many…