Whisper of the Heart Review (Edition 1)

Note: This may contain spoliers, so watch it before you read this!

Whisper of the Heart is like a modern day fairy tale. The art work is really precise and the music really brings out the mood. It’s definitely a master piece.

I really feel like writing a little commentary/review for Whisper of the Heart because its one of those extraordinary film that stills leaves me up lifted and touched a side of me which I still can’t explain.

It starts with a warm light glowing through out the city night life… yet it was still in tune with nature. I mean, you could hear the crickets and the buzzing sound from the street lamps which completely bring me into some sort of calm, dreamy and subtle humble night state/feeling. The crickets and the buzzing lamps are the sound of life, which makes me feel really happy. Perhaps the warm glow on the street lights in the dark night, gives us a sense on hope and security?

When Shizuku enters her small apartment, although it wasn’t clean, spacious and nice… it was still cosy, organized and not perfect. It makes me feel like at home, just how my aunty house is like over the states, so obviously although it is not tidy, its comfortable! In someways, I would feel at home with this environment because it reflects my own character, i’m not perfect and i’m messy… but I do know how to organize my self and at least I can be my self comfortably!

The streets it self, is amazing. It isn’t like one of those perfect grand posh buildings you’ll find nowadays. It has its own 80’s tacky touch to it, which just feels like home. It’s just really down to earth! The streets are always crowded so a sense of community is well established.

The music is really up lifting. As soon as the door bust door, the music plays whilst Shizuku struggles to wake up in the morning gentle sun. The music slowly picks up its paces in the way that wakes our spirit up as well… We’ve all been sleepy head in the morning and we know how it feels… then we know how it feels being late and that panic adrenaline rush, that sparks up the day for us!

I really like how they set the shades very accurately, so that you get a sense of some realism, that cools summer shades in the fresh warm springs day.

I think it was rather enchanting to find an antique store hidden secretly in the middle on the city. It’s like magic in a modern city… magic in the stories that Shuzuku reads, magic in the antique store, magic in the ambition with be a violin maker…

I like it how they take ordinary character like Shizuku and Seiji, and build something interesting out from it. Perhaps that is why it touches most people? because of its realism and that everyone have been through that phase in their lives, like the unpolished rock of emerald. In this case, Shizuku is really trying to face with many obstacles encountered when growing up, such as finding her talent and ambition, shruggling with school, loosing sense of magic and fairy tale that she once found in books, loosing her own childhood spirit and etc… I admire how Shizuku Character were portray as broad minded, natural and honest, unlike most passive and timid girls… that to me, is a sense of innocence.

The film really had a promising and hopeful message. Like the wish Shizuku had of the book donor. We are lost souls trying to find our place in life.

I really like the determination that Shizuku had, to go straight full on to writing her novel. That is an inspiration for doing something whole heartedly with sheer determination and testing her ability under hardship. I really like the part when she gave it all she got, and being all weary she fell into the floor, with the small warm spark of memory of Seiji carving the violin, holding her on.

It also tells us the importance of studying, and that our future seems dimmer without studying-education. But although studying is not in our ambiton, it is still something needed to be sorted out, just how Shizuku shockingly realised how writing novels isn’t enough and how sh needs to study more to be back on track.

Then, there was a sense of recovery and healing touch, after the long anticipated wait out in the cold, to the cosy house eating warm noodles.

I like how the relationsip between Shizuku and Seiji is like, their both support and help out each other. Like how Shizuku don’t wwant to be a luggage but wants to help. The relationship is really based on innocent care and respect, it is no way based on lust and playing about.

At the end of the film, I always get that same old happy warm butterfly thing my tummy, it really cheers me up.