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Again, for example, only one character explanation is given for why it is so goddamned hard to speak one’s mind (“words hurt people and are permanent”), but there are clearly other reasons why people don’t talk about stuff that are even in the movie but are almost completely unexplored.
- The Anthem of the Heart hits most of its notes beautifully.
- Verdict
By Kallie Plagge
Updated: Dec 16, 2015 10:26 pm
Posted: Nov 13, 2015 1:42 am
I was immediately taken with The Anthem of the Heart’s shattered fantasy as soon as it started. The new animated movie from the team behind Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day has a fairytale feel but stays mostly grounded in an often harsh reality, and it brilliantly balances its heavy moments with lighthearted ones. Although it grows cliched and empty toward the end, it remains a powerful and beautiful story about a girl learning to find her voice.
The film opens with Jun, a young girl prone to flights of fancy who is fascinated with the castle at the top of a nearby hill. She sees her dad driving away from the castle with a strange woman in his car, and Jun excitedly tells her mom, thinking her dad’s a prince. The castle is actually a love hotel. Jun’s parents separate, and her father tells her it’s all her fault, since she’s such a “chatterbox.” She then wanders up the hill and encounters a magical talking egg. She doesn't want to hurt anyone with her words anymore, so the egg takes away her ability to speak. It's a clever, harsh take on "be careful what you wish for" stories — the juxtaposition of fairytale magic and the despair of a child makes The Anthem of the Heart instantly compelling and rich.
The movie skips forward about 10 years, and now Jun never speaks. Her homeroom teacher assigns her and three others to plan a community outreach event, and she manages to painfully choke out that she doesn't want to do it, shocking the class. The egg's curse feels horribly malicious, and Jun's obvious pain made me care about her. Even though she's mired in a fantastical curse, her problems are real, and I acutely felt her despair.
Even though The Anthem of the Heart falls flat toward the end, it’s still a moving, beautiful movie. The animation looks great, and its tone is balanced nearly perfectly. It does get a bit heavy-handed with its message beginning in the second half, and it doesn’t have to — what it has to say about expressing your feelings is powerful enough on its ...
- Kallie Plagge
Jul 26, 2020. Rated: 2.5/5 • Dec 23, 2016. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. A girl has her voice magically taken away so she can't hurt anyone with it until her outlook on life ...
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The pain and blame that comes with divorce can be devastating. Throughout the movie the main character learns to cope with her trauma and grow as a person. It was very sweet and very creative. The animation is beautiful and the movie overall has a fairy tale-like quality although the story is a slice of life anime genre.
Jun 17, 2023 · While Naruse's feelings and dilemmas take the centre-stage of this story, The Anthem of the Heart builds a believable and relatable cast of characters around her, each bearing the weight of their own doubts. For example, Daiki Tasaki (Yoshimasa Hosoya) is the baseball team's ace marinading in the disappointment of missing the season due to injury.
Aug 4, 2020 · The Anthem of the Heart is a delightful mishmash of genres. To start with its an animated feature, providing both lighthearted and wholesome slice-of-life, intense family drama, and on top of that, original songs and musical numbers. The story follows a young girl suffering from selective mutism named Jun Naruse, voiced by Inori Minase ( Is the ...
Dec 2, 2015 · In The Anthem of the Heart, Takumi (arguably the leader of the Community Outreach Committee) was accompanied by Daiki, the jock who needed to use his brain, Natsuki, miss popularity who struggled with matters of the heart, and of course, there’s poor fractured Jun, slowly but surely garnering the courage to put herself back together again.
