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**Suzume** the latest film from Makoto Shinkai. The first 15 minutes, I was thinking:  Yeah, full of fantastical plot points in the intro. One after another. Perhaps one of his most fantasy heavy story, in that sense. The clouds look as good as ever. And the animation is great. But as great as it looks, I find the film is lacking a good emotional core. it's basically a road trip movie with only two characters going from A to B to C trying to fix things/avoid a magical disaster. It isn't very focused in a romance then, like most of his previous films, and during the first 60% there is not enough to replace that, leaving a missing gap. Then at the 60% mark there are finally dramatic stakes in the story that felt missing before, and also suddenly it is more a romance story, but it feels hollow, because the romance angle isn't well done, and we basically have the main character risking her life for a superficial crush, someone who has only meet as a human during a few minutes Puzzlingly, the plot introduces a new plot point out of left field when it's almost at the 80% mark the black cat that makes the aunt to say all that stuff, that doesn't even make a lot of sense. Hell, the end itself also doesn't make a lot of sense the white cat transforms again in a keystone when the plot needs to, even if before say it couldn't be a keystone anymore, nor it wanted. And the timeloop scene at the end felt gratuitous.
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