The Place Promised in Our Early Days
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Movie Reviews of The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Movie Review: The story ruins it
Summary: 3 Stars
Beautiful artwork in this movie. Every frame is a masterpiece. But I just couldn't get past the story. It bored me to tears. I tried, oh how I tried, but I had to turn it off at around the halfway point.Movie Review: Great movie, but please be aware it is not totally sci-fi
Summary: 5 Stars
Does a plot have to be complex and so deep with meaning to be great? Does it have to have a moral message to render it meaningful? Does it have to entertain with the biggest bombast that you can throw on screen? I think not. If your idea of great filmmaking has to answer all these questions with a "yes," then you might be missing the big picture.
To start off, "The Place Promised in Our Early Days" is not a science fiction film. Rather, it's a simple story with sci-fi elements. Yes, the parallel universes plot device sort of comes out of nowhere, feeling a bit tacked on to give validity to the events that happen later on, but it works in the end since it re-enforces what the movie is trying to say: The greatest promise friends can give, is the promise that they will never stop loving.
While the story is not without its flaws, the movie succeeds in the end. What most people don't get is that there is no real "enemy" here. You can't pinpoint and say "Ah ha! I see a bad guy." There isn't one. The real antagonist is the loss of innocence and what people have to do to reconnect to that simplicity that was once in our childhood. So when people say that there isn't any action in the film, I think that they aren't really looking at what the film is really trying to convey.
But the little action that is in here is still pretty to look at.
The animation here is top-notch and it harkens back to Shinkai's first work "Voices..." but on a much grander scale. Everything is bright and colorful without being saturated in hyper-vibrancy. It juxtaposes well with the intimacy that these characters have for each other.
The music just adds to this rich palette. The solo violin piece played through out the film creates this warmth that actually accentuates the colors of the film. It's hard to describe, but the piece adds its own color to the beautiful animation.
Overall, this movie made me realize that a story, as simple as this one, could resonate to anyone that is willing to see the bigger picture. Friendship, love and the dreams of childhood, transcend the difficulties and realities of life.
Movie Review: Beautiful
Summary: 5 Stars
I like to rate movies myself to help my friends and family. I have seen alot of movies and out of all 400+ movies I have seen I have given only two movies five stars and this is one of them. lets start out with the music the music is one of the best sountracks I have ever heard. It is in the same class as Tianic and Lord of the rings. The only way I can describe the violin music in this movie is magnificent. The Story is Wonderful one of friendship, love, and the durability of both of them; even through war. as the two friends build a plane to reach an tower out in the distance. I will admit if you are not careful you might get confused by the movies plot seeing that it has to deal a little bit with paralelle universes it is better than it sounds. This is one of those movies that once you see it you'll wish that you had seen it earlier. It does not matter if you like anime or not this is one movie you should see. Movie Review: An Instant Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was recommended to me by amazon.com, so I decided to check it out.
I fell in love with the breathtaking animation from the moment I started the film. At times I forgot that what I was watching was animated.
The characters are all well portrayed and the viewer becomes captivated by them.
The overall theme is one of loss and love, though the war that threatens to ensue throughout the film adds a nice touch. Despite all of the troubles in the world, the main character can only think of the girl he loved.
Masterful
Movie Review: Impossible to explain...
Summary: 5 Stars
While 'The Place Promised in Our Early Days' left me with an empty feeling, ended without the conclusion for which I'd hoped for over half the movie, I still have to give it five stars.
'Promised...', in my opinion, fell into the vast category of anime movies with enormous imagination, incredible animation... and a plot so exotic that it simply didn't permit a satisfying and complete story.
So much of 'Promised...', such as the majority of the plot and personality development/establishment for all characters, isn't supplied by the movie. In fact, the plot seems so incomplete, the characters so flat, that it's almost too much to bear. But through the almost instant bewilderment the viewer is bound to experience, and through the frustrating lack of real character substance... the overall dreaminess of the movie and the purity of those simple characters' motives shines so brightly as to obscure 'Promised...'s shortcomings.
Visually, the movie is breathtaking. The scenery is always incredible -- surreal and super-real at once, vibrant and vast and absolutely gorgeous. Emotionally, the protagonists' story and its presentation through snatches of flashback/daydream/real-dreams, speaks to the viewer on some level too deep to be hindered by critical thoughts.
This movie left me muddled, and awed. I don't quite know what to say, other than that while I was in some ways disappointed, I still felt... enriched... on some indefinable level. Get the movie! You need to watch it to know what I mean.