2016 · animation · drama · romance
A Silent Voice: The Movie
Directed by Naoko Yamada2h 9m2016
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
Our read: A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive animation · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, measured animation / drama, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
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