![]() To be sure, there are elements in the film that feel very new. ![]() The last of these feels to me a bit like Shinkai's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou moment: a director with an incredibly clear and consistent aesthetic makes the film that leans with fiery-eyed "fuck you" aggression all the way into that aesthetic, doubling-down on all of the things that any critic has ever declared to be a problem with his work. That was 2013's The Garden of Words, it was 2016's Your Name., it was 2019's Weathering with You, and right on schedule, it's 2022's Suzume. ![]() Shinkai Makoto makes one kind of film, and he makes it better than anybody else in the history of the medium: teen love story major scenes take place against dramatic sunsets sunlight glimmers off of pools of water there's rain there are trains in its last fifth, the story transforms from a smooth execution of genre tropes to the absolute goddamn dumbest thing you have ever seen. ![]()
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