Hara is suspicious and Shawn’s curiosity grows. Come to find out, his mother and grandfather believed there were little people living in the house, and they even had a custom dollhouse constructed for them but the little people never touched it. She must be no taller than the length of his thumb. On his first day at the house, he sees the cat chase something under a bush and when he goes to look closer he catches a glimpse of a tiny girl scuttering through the underbrush. He’s suffering from an unspecified heart ailment and has an upcoming surgery so staying at the home under the watch of the maid, Hara, is meant to help him relax. The story centers around a boy named Shawn who spends a summer’s week at his mother’s childhood home. It’s an uncomplicated movie but it manages to be in the end an appealing bit of entertainment that encourages smiles with its warmth.
The movie hits every beat predictably as the story unfolds without surprise, almost straying into the realm of sanctimony at one point or another, with a trite conversation now and then. Though this film had a new director, the ubiquitous marks of Miyazaki are here in the strong female lead, the pauses between scenes. It’s the kind of simplistic movie which Miyazaki had to purposefully focus on creating himself in Ponyo.Īrrietty follows a more traditional plot where causation takes priority over the vignette-style storytelling which Hayao Miyazaki is so fond of. It’s a simple, straightforward, optimistic, and fresh film in the Ghibli canon but with less of the unexplained and more of a down-to-earth luster, to my mind. I sense his youth made its way into his directorial debut. Yonebayashi, who went on to direct When Marnie Was There, holds the record as the youngest person to ever direct a film for Studio Ghibli. Of course, this fusion of East and West by Studio Ghibli is something they’ve had decades to perfect. The result was a movie which contains many Japanese sensibilities, but also several English ones, such as the living spaces of the humans and the Borrowers being so different.
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Hayao Miyazaki, who scripted the film, and director Hiromasa Yonebayashi successfully translated the setting of Norton’s book series from England to Japan. The book was published mid-20th century, 1952, and its concept has a kind of antique charm to it with the thought of little people dwelling under the floorboards, like fairies at the bottom of the garden, almost a nursery rhyme sort of thing. In the big picture of Ghibli’s entire canon, Arrietty may be a little forgettable but it is no less lovely or heartfelt.Īrrietty ( The Borrower Arrietty in Japan) is based on children’s novel series called The Borrowers by British author Mary Norton. It has the same sort of ordinariness and smallness of Ghibli’s other endearing works like My Neighbor Totoro, Whisper of the Heart and Only Yesterday. Against the explosive backdrop of some of the studio’s more action-oriented and epic films, Arrietty can seem like a footnote in a ledger, yet that is as much a of its charm as the trademark animation which brings its minute world and characters to life. I’m not trying to be punny or anything but The Secret World of Arrietty is a “small” movie.
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