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    1) The film follows Ishida Shoya, a 6th grade boy who bullied a deaf classmate named Nishimiya Shoko by stealing and breaking her hearing aids. This caused Nishimiya to withdraw from school. 2) Years later in high school, Ishida has no friends as retribution for his past actions. He attempts suicide but is stopped by memories of Nishimiya. 3) Ishida seeks out Nishimiya to return her notebook and apologize. They slowly rebuild their friendship along with others. However, both attempt suicide before being stopped by the other, with Ishida falling into a coma after saving Nishimiya.

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    1) The film follows Ishida Shoya, a 6th grade boy who bullied a deaf classmate named Nishimiya Shoko by stealing and breaking her hearing aids. This caused Nishimiya to withdraw from school. 2) Years later in high school, Ishida has no friends as retribution for his past actions. He attempts suicide but is stopped by memories of Nishimiya. 3) Ishida seeks out Nishimiya to return her notebook and apologize. They slowly rebuild their friendship along with others. However, both attempt suicide before being stopped by the other, with Ishida falling into a coma after saving Nishimiya.

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    1) The film follows Ishida Shoya, a 6th grade boy who bullied a deaf classmate named Nishimiya Shoko by stealing and breaking her hearing aids. This caused Nishimiya to withdraw from school. 2) Years later in high school, Ishida has no friends as retribution for his past actions. He attempts suicide but is stopped by memories of Nishimiya. 3) Ishida seeks out Nishimiya to return her notebook and apologize. They slowly rebuild their friendship along with others. However, both attempt suicide before being stopped by the other, with Ishida falling into a coma after saving Nishimiya.

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    1) The film follows Ishida Shoya, a 6th grade boy who bullied a deaf classmate named Nishimiya Shoko by stealing and breaking her hearing aids. This caused Nishimiya to withdraw from school. 2) Years later in high school, Ishida has no friends as retribution for his past actions. He attempts suicide but is stopped by memories of Nishimiya. 3) Ishida seeks out Nishimiya to return her notebook and apologize. They slowly rebuild their friendship along with others. However, both attempt suicide before being stopped by the other, with Ishida falling into a coma after saving Nishimiya.

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    Vicente Ralph V.

    Vallesteros Gr 12-E
    HUMSS

    A Silent Voice

    Intersubjectivity, Freedom, Death, Love

    In the animated film, A Silent Voice, directed by Naoko Yamada and


    written by Reiko Yoshida, a 6th grader boy named as Ishida Shōya bullied a
    transferee named Nishimiya Shōko, a girl with hearing impairment which is
    the main reason why she’s being bullied. Ishida and Ueno are the primary
    classmates of Nishimiya who takes advantage of her by getting Nishimiya’s
    hearing aid and throwing it around, they did the same procedure for 8 times
    until Nishimiya did not go to school because 8 of Nishimiya’s hearing aid
    are lost, and her ears were bleeding the other day. The school principal
    talked to the class and mentioned that the bullied girl will not attend school
    anymore because Nishimiya’s mother is really worried about her daughter.
    Few years later, Ishida and his batch mates are already in high school and
    grown up, but this time, the scene has turned around where Ishida did not
    have any friends because people are saying that he’s really a bully that no
    one comes to him or even talk to him and technically speaking, he’s the one
    who’s getting bullied now, but he accepts it as atonement for what he has
    done before. One day, Ishida went to the edge of a bridge to commit suicide
    and finish all his problems all at once by taking his own life, but he was
    distracted and stopped by his memories of Nishimiya and his mother and
    family. As Ishida saw the notebook that Nishimiya used for communication
    before, all wrinkly and looked like trash already, he thought of giving it
    back to Nishimiya as a sign of apologizing to her. Ishida went to Nishimiya’s
    room to pay her a visit and return the notebook but he was stopped by a
    “boy” named Yuzuru and made Ishida walk away as “he” told him that
    “he’s” Nishimiya’s “boyfriend”. But the truth is she is the younger sister of
    Nishimiya and was just protecting her from others. As Yuzuru, Nishimiya
    and Ishida tagged along spending some time with each other and having
    more friends, one night, during the fireworks display, Nishimiya went home
    to “study” as Yuzuru asked Ishida to get the camera inside their house, he
    saw Nishimiya about to jump off the terrace to be erased in existence and
    finish off the problems that she has given others, Ishida quickly ran towards
    Nishimiya to stop her from committing suicide, he successfully saved her
    life, but in return, Ishida was the one who fell off and went into coma.
    Nishimiya, Yuzuru and their mother, Yaeko went down to Miyako’s (Shoya’s
    mother) feet to apologize for what they have brought her son with.
    Afterwards, Ishida, still in coma, is dreaming about Nishimiya and same
    goes with her, dreaming about Ishida waking up. After Nishimiya had
    woken up from her dreams, she immediately went off running to the bridge
    to see Ishida, as Ishida found Nishimiya on her knees, waiting for him, he
    approached her and told her that he’s fine. Things go back to normal as
    Ishida went to school again to attend the school fair, he asked favor from
    his friends to walk with him as his beloved companions, and there, he cried
    and learned how to look on to the people’s face and realize the beauty of
    life.

    From the movie synopsis above, I can say that the intersubjectivity
    within Ishida and Nishimiya is evident because despite of what happened
    during their elementary days, they were still connected and have a
    relationship with one another, psychologically, and the same thing goes
    with his friends. The choice of Ishida to not look to other’s face and just
    chooses to look down is about freedom, he displayed his choice by putting
    an ‘X’ mark in other people’s face as it’s symbolism. When Ishida and
    Nishimiya tried to take their lives by jumping off from high places, bad
    things went through and it didn’t solve their problems, in fact, they just
    made the scenario worse. It just states that things will not go better if one
    tries to delete themselves from existence. We do not know where, when or
    how we are going to die, but we are assured that it will happen in the most
    favorable event, and it will happen because something needs to be done and
    it has a purpose. Finally, talking about love, the story went on not focusing
    much on the romantic side of the story, it focuses more on the love of
    family and friends which is said to be really powerful and has high influence
    for the individual. Love conquers all, even the person whom you call as
    ‘evil’. Love would keep the fire in everyone’s heart burning from within and
    continue loving each other, especially when it comes to friendship’s quarrel,
    no matter how high the degree of the problem may be, love for one another
    would be the main source of forgiveness, which was shown in the last part
    of the animated movie.

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