So I made this account specifically for writing this review, it will be my first review so bear with me! It will be a little long, but it might save 2 hours of your precious time!
First of all, before I watched this movie I had great expectations, seeing this high score, great reviews, I thought that I was going to watch a masterpiece but no, this probably was a piece of something else!
Art is fine, not bad, and it actually might be the only thing I liked
There are some well drawn scenes and landscapes
sound is meh since all tracks sounds the same
Now Let's move to the important things :
the plot and the massive lack of character development!
The story starts with hana, a very ordinary college girl, nothing really special about her and nothing special will be given about her through the whole movie
And she isn't a special case, all characters in this movie won't be given any kind of back stories.
and not just that, her character doesn't suit her actions too, she doesn't have a wild character, she is actually a little shy.
So That normal college girl spots a calm cool looking guy sitting in a lecture, when she tries to talk to him he tells her that he isn't a student in a very shady way! Nothing creepy about it!
In fact, it was never explained what is he doing in the college!
Hana keeps chasing that cool looking guy around until he finally starts hanging out with her, and someday he decides to tell her his secret , but what is it? He transformes in front of her into a wolf! and she doesn't even scream or feel scared! I wouldn't really care if she had characteristics that fits that but how come that a very normal college girl doesn't feel a little scared when she sees a werewolf?
Not just that , here comes the other shock, she has sex with him in his wolf form! I don't know from where should I start, the fact that he didn't transform into human while doing this? Or the fact that she did this? How should this be a cute love story?
Let's move on to the cool wolf guy, you might wonder why don't I mention his name, guess what? he was never given a one! She didn't call him with his name once! Somehow that guy is supposed to be a main character but also somehow we don't learn anything about him, literally nothing except he just had a little difficult childhood!
No back story, no emotions, just a plain character.
The guy says that werewolves aren't like those rumors and they can actually control their transforms and live normally among humans but somehow all werewolves are killed and that cool looking guy is the last one! Why were the werewolves killed if they can live like normal people? No one knows!
Back to the story
Hana the college girl gets pregnant, and she gives birth in her apartment alone with the guy, no hospital no doctor, and no neighbours too! How couldn't they hear her while giving birth? It doesn't matter! Isn't it wonderful giving birth to a werewolf while you're still in college!
Well you might expect to see that college girl face some difficulties now or have some anxiety, nope! She actually decides to give birth again!
But here when tragedy happens, the wolf guy dies, we should sympathize of course, but how if all of this actually happened in the first 15 minutes? And to a character that is so plain?
how did the wolf guy die ? It was never shown!
how did hana go to college? Where are her parents? These questions weren't answered either.
So now we have hana the single mother, she doesn't know what to do with her wolf children, the government tries to check on her children, they aren't vaccinated, what does hana do?
She moves to a nearby countryside where the government won't somehow be able to find her! And buys an old broken house,
You might wonder how does she have any money
it is the wolf guy was saving money, enough money to feed a family and buy a house!
And somehow too she fixes it with a hammer and some wood because she is a super-powered mother.
She is also capable of taking care of two childs alone!
Throughout all of this, Hana doesn't show any signs of frustration!
The next 40 minutes of the movie move so damm slowly!
Now let's talk a little about the wolf children personalities:
We see that yuki the daughter has a wild character, she moves a lot, she is naughty and gourmand
On the other hand we have ame the son, has a weak body, doesn't eat much and shy and in one scene he tells his mother that he doesn't want to be a wolf
Somehow, these roles will be switched! Without any true arcs,
The boy will be the wild and strong one and will fight for living in the woods
while the girl will become obedient and she will hate being a wolf because she hurt a classmate for no logical reason except stupidity of course,
And I can't see this as anything except a stupid stereotype :"boys are wild, girls are shy"
(the story of the classmate that yuki hurt)
Yuki meets a boy in class, the boy tells her that she smells like fur, she gets so damn frustrated for no reason, the boy tries to talk to her again so she transforms and scratches his ear almost making him deaf! The boy's mother arrives, she seems truly worried about her son and she scolds hana for her daughter's actions.
Back to the movie
The movie keeps moving in a ridiculously slow pace and SUDDENLY everything is thrown at your face!
During a storm, Hana chases her shitty son ame that decided to leave his mother in the middle of the storm and go and live in the forest, not giving a damn care about his mother, hana keeps chasing him instead of going to get her traped daughter in the school because of the storm,
yuki the daughter, is trapped in school with the boy she hurt, yuki wonder where is the boy's mother so he tells her that she is getting married and doesn't care about him at all! Yuki somehow feels encouraged and a how's him her wolf form and everything is solved.
During these forceful emotional scenes, Hana is almost eaten by a bear, she falls off a cliff too and faints!
Then her shitty son finally finds her in woods, he picks her up and guess what? he dumps her outside the forest, ready to leave again not giving a damn care about his wounded mother, hana wakes up and she sees her son dumping her, she cries for 3 seconds and somehow accepts it! The boy doesn't even come back to hug her or anything!
Oh did I mention that she dumped her daughter in the school in a middle of a storm?
Things go on, the boy doesn't seem to ever come back again, he just howls from time to time to tell his mother that he is alive, and done!
Oh did I mention that her daughter eventually dumped her too?
Yes the two wolf children left their beloved mother alone in the old big house!
What a beautiful family!
This how the writer gives depth and makes character arcs!
This is the movie!
I don't know how did this movie get this high score and reviews , there are much better movies with less score and a lot of criticism for minor things.
And I still don't know how is this an emotional movie, you literally can't feel anything towards any character except anger for their stupid actions and decisions since they are shallow and plain.
My storytelling is even better than the movie itself!
