Hotarubi no mori e 2011 movie#
In the short span of the movie I was able to connect with the characters and felt my heart breaking by the end. Hotarubi is a simple story about the need for human contact and love. The story is simple and does not try to hard to unnecessarily develop characters or plot. And that is part of what makes the movie so charming. With a running time of only 45 mins, it is really just about the length of two episodes of a show.
Hotarubi no mori e 2011 full#
Hotarubi is adapted from a one shot manga series, and is not even the length of a full feature movie. She began to visit him every summer, even as she grows while he waits for the summer to come, for their time together to flow again. There, she had a fateful encounter with a spirit, who helped her even though he would disappear if a human being touches him. When she was young, Hotaru was once lost when she played in the forest near her uncle’s place that she visits every summer. Yeah, right, more experienced at fooling naive, impressionable young girls.2011 Number of Episodes: 1 (Movie) Genre: Drama, Romance, Supernatural Trailer Synopsis Saying that boys are immature and older men are mature and more experienced. It’s sinister in how efficient this movie is at fooling people to think this is acceptable and view it as some sweet romance, mainly because is accepted for underaged girls to seek company of older guys/men. Reading the reviews i’m surprised that very few people see the pedophilia and grooming in the movie. It’s also interesting to notice that the male character is cursed to not leave the forest – could it be a metaphor for pedos, that they’re shunned by the society? There’s a reason why the writer didn’t choose characters of the same age, and why he chose to make it about a little girl and a grown man, since pedophilia is rampant in anime (even in anime where there are 2 characters of the same age, they put a grown up man who is in love with an underaged girl and sad that she’s dating a guy her age). Ok, but why did it have to be a little girl? The writer could have put characters of the same age – either 2 kids or 2 grown-ups. The movie portrays the male character as an unfortunate victim who didn’t get love and that all he needed was a human touch and that finally someone hugged him. Then he disappears before she gets “too old”.īut before that, they hug, saying that now he can touch her (since she’s over 13 now – age of consent in Japan) and they confess their love for each other. The male lead put his mask on the girl and kissed her through the mask – making it look less immoral and “legal” (I’m not sure if this was before she turned 13 or not). It would be fine if this was about friendship but why make it into romance? Turning it into romance is what disgusted and angered me.Ī little girl who we don’t see interacting much with her family and we don’t see her having any other friends, is spending every summer with a man in the woods who is wearing a mask and she develops feelings for him, and he waits for her every summer, longs for her and develops feelings for her too. The major problem I have with this movie is the relationship between the leads. I haven’t seen this type of “comedy” outside of anime, in anime they often make this type of perverted scenes “for laughs” and i don’t think it’s unintentionally. Like, there are so many different ways she could have done that without it turning into “oops, my undies are showing”. In psychology, this is called repetition compulsion.Īnother thing that didn’t set right with me was showing the underwear of the little girl and making it look like some funny scene that the girl wanted to scare the man off.
What’s more important to notice is that the little girl is conditioned to accept this type of behavior from men because her uncle is also hitting her on the head, so she’s also drawn to the other man and keeps coming back to him even tho he hits her on the head too. Why do the characters have to be violent?
But since I’m older and more mature now, I don’t think that type of behavior is funny. Physical violence is so common in anime that you get desensitized to it and when I was a kid watching anime i didn’t think much of it, actually it’s always played for laughs so the audience is suppose to accept this as some sort of comedic relief I guess. The problematic stuff starts with male characters hitting the little girl on the head. I felt more uncomfortable the longer the movie went on and I kept thinking “what the fuck man?”
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