![]() Let's face it, we have people like Nishimiya around us. Today, May 10, is the first day of its showing in the Philippines and I have no regrets watching it! This review is very late because of one big reason: the release of Koe no Katachi in Philippine cinemas was delayed. ![]() It’s not unwatchable, but it may as well be. Everyone and everything is so undefined, here, that I’m not sure there was even a recognizable arc to the story. ![]() Rather, what we get is an attempt to faithfully hit all the big story beats and images from the manga, and, in so doing, the movie overlooks its first duty as a movie: tell a good story. There just isn’t space for it-at least, not without drastically trimming plot and character alike. There are too many moving parts, too many characters with their own intertwining storylines to cohesively tackle in two hours. ![]() Closely adaptable? No-at least, not as a movie. It’s a brilliant, brilliant story-and it deserves better than what’s in this film.Ī Silent Voice is a series-and I emphasize series-based on character progressions over a period of months. It’s an overwhelmingly minority opinion, I know, but A Silent Voice is a slapdash, choppy, depthless summary of a remarkable, heartrending story of the despairing consequences from the most basic of our childhood stupidities: our ignorance of empathy. ![]()
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