2/28/2024 0 Comments Summer wars streaming serviceI highly recommend it for all anime fans and for people who might become so, after watching a masterpiece like Summer Wars. I found brilliant the way the scenes of cyber battle were intertwined with scenes of Japanese baseball, birthday then dying rituals, the individual traits of all of the members of the family, all without losing anything, just adding more and more depth to each scene. There are both moral values to be learned from the story as well as the excitement of a crisis and how giving your best can get one past it. What I found really nice in the film is that traditional family values are mixed with modern views of the world, a beautiful countryside scenery is mixed with the virtual cyber world of OZ. inside something that can be seen as the future of Facebook. It has good animation, a really cute story and features a cyber battle between a Japanese family and a malicious A.I. If you can imagine the easy going yet fascinating Hayao Miyazaki stories, with their kind heartedness and deep Japanese roots being mixed with Denou Coil, you will get Summer Wars. Yet it lacks that special something, that final spark. Stunning visuals, great story, identifiable characters, good romance, nice music. It's not going to be an instant classic that everyone will talk about in the coming years. If there is something that I have to nitpick about, it's that the movie doesn't have that awe-inspiring quality. So yes, I love this movie, and definitely recommend it to each and every one out there. I know that aunt, who's bossing people around with a verbal whip and shrill voice. I know that teenage emo cousin, who's made of awkward. I know that one uncle, who's loud and boisterous and all about big, material things. I could easily place myself among these people and feel immediately at home. It's a simple story - though yes, as a scifi story it has some bizarre elements - but it's told well, with special attention paid to the quiet moments and the little gestures we make when in the company of someone else. These two stories are so far away from one another, yet they manage to tell a coherent, heartwarming story about the bonds that define us and that allow us to function with one another. Something about its mad mix of colourful, vibrant portrayal of virtual world and down to earth family life in rural Japan really appeals to me.
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