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Belle is Mamoru Hosoda's finest movie yet in my opinion.
The film overall is very powerful because it is trying to say something about who we really are as opposed to how we often carry ourselves with a persona in our every day life, and how much power we can have to influence others if we choose to be ourselves, as opposed to just wearing a mask.
At the end, without giving away too much, it comes down to how we choose to help others; to someone you don't know, even not knowing what others are going through but choosing to be kind instead can make all the difference in the world to that person. I think it's an especially beautiful message in the context of Suzu, the main Character, who shows so much suffering and self-doubt in the beginning of the film, and I wanted to sympathize with her from the very beginning.
At first, I thought some scenes were about Suzu finally finding love, and I realized later that it was more about her empathizing and wanting the best for others and trying to help them however she could. There is another flashback later that connects all of this together very well I thought during a final, memorable performance.
The movie is a bit darker than I thought it would be originally before watching it, and I'm glad the story dealt with heavy themes such as loneliness, death, love, abuse, and ultimately choosing to be a kind and genuine person in a chaotic world where everyone is just trying to make it and be someone.
I watched the movie 3 times in English and once in Japanese with subtitles and I will say that I personally felt the Japanese sub was superior, the subtitles gave better context and understanding to each of the scenes, whereas the English version felt like certain scenes did not translate as well in comparison or were missing context.
I will give credit to the English version's Kylie McNeill, who played Suzu, who I felt had an absolutely
mesmerizing and haunting voice in all of her songs in English.
Kylie's voice and her singing absolutely carried the film in English, where I felt some of the other non singing, voice acting from other characters seemed fairly average in comparison. The ending song "A Million Miles Away" I admit left me with tears in my eyes, especially the grand finale and the implications it had for the plot.
Kaho Nakamura gave a absolutely fantastic and stellar performance as well, and general I am very happy with the overall very high production values of this film. Belle will put modern day Disney to shame in the songs alone, with the lyrics and how the songs were delivered with such passion and emotional resonance.
Another reason I really admire Belle is how the film consists of two different styles of animation. One, with a more Western style of animation with how "Belle" is drawn in the virtual world like something out of a Disney movie from the 90's and then the other half of the movie is the more traditional Japanese animation style "anime" of characters and presentation. It really is unique, and there is not anything else like it that I have seen before. If anything, watch Belle for the fantastic musical songs and overall production value alone, and the emotion behind each of the words that gave greater meaning to the songs themselves.
I would highly recommend Belle to anyone who is a fan of Mamoru Hosoda's films or Anime in general. Or maybe even if you like musicals. LaLa Land, in particular comes to mind even. Belle is truly like no other Anime or movie you will have ever seen before and personally, for me, the Characters and message of the film stayed in my mind long after the credits ended. This is one you will want to watch multiple times.
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The visuals and music definitely beat anything Disney has done so far, I was in shock over how amazing it was! There is some pacing issues but you’ll be to dazzled, to even notice much.
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