Suzume

Suzume is the latest movie by modern anime storyteller maestro ‘Makoto Shinkai’, who rose to prominence from the film “Your Name” back in 2016. Suzume adds another staggering chapter to writer-director filmographer as the movie gurantees overwhelmed emotions with it’s complex ending that encapsulates all the themes presented in the story and delivers a powerful message through his artistic direction causing a global sensation upon it’s release.

Suzume is a modern action-adventure story where a 17 teen-year-old high school girl named ‘Suzume’ helps a enigmatic-man ‘Souta Munakata’ who closes doors that triggers multiple disasters across Japan.

It’s a cryptic story filled with dramatic twists and turns, the ramphant, the disasters, and the emotion of having a separation portrayed in such a way that audience can experience the emotions of having love and loss via breathless road trip.

While the ending of Suzume may seem a bit mystery at first, it’s actually very deep and easy to interpret once the movie is put in perspective through the author’s previous works. This is some artistic storytelling, as it balances the ideas of emotion, adventure, disaster, separation and the gravity of not giving up and beleiving in love that it is the most powerful force in the world, something worth living and fighting for.

Suzume is a cinematic poetry comes through the personified the storytelling where author’s perpection is being valued. These type of films makes you embrace the film making as it creates a benchmark to the animated film genre.