The film is very alluring and captivating even with visuals alone. Some of the best animated sea life there is. From ribbon eels to false killer sharks the scenery is illuminating and stunning.
Very good at keeping your attention by going from a melancholy sunny scene to something darker and more fast paced.
Some of scenes were genuinely so intense (not content wise but by use of sounds and visuals) that I was taken aback or caught off guard.
If you are not a fan of films that are more emotional in nature rather than literal than this may not be your flavor of tea. There is a lot of fantastical elements that can be hard to attach to in terms of a plot. At times it often feels more like a visual and auditory experience than it does a concrete story. So that looseness and lack of rigidity in terms of story can be a fault if that is what you are wishing to derive from a film.
The characters themselves serve as devices to explore the world in which the film is set in and everhthing works together to propel the film forward in that way. The change of pace from a typical summer childhood adolescence animation was personally a treat for me, so if you like odd tasting candy maybe try it out yourself.
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