Reviews

Suzume is a movie that primarily focuses on it's visuals and sound. It looks great, but the movie was telling me how to feel, yet I never actually felt it. Pretty much no character has any real depth, I think I almost cared about two side characters, the main "romance" is forced and feels odd with the student and guy who wants to be a teacher age gap. The cast feels strange, too, almost like the main character was going to be older, but is for some reason a teenage girl surrounded by mostly adults. Things arent explained, not even in an acceptable soft world building way, and I never felt anything emotionally, either. I never cared for anything going on in the film, but even halfway, my mood dipped into annoyance. It's a movie that looks like it should be good, but is not moving at all, which is disappointing for a film apparently about peoples relationships, and honestly, the end message didnt quite seem clear, music in moments almost told me how the scene was supposed to be interpreted (like jazz for a high action chase scene), but then in the end I almost felt confused. I wouldn't recommend this movie. If you only like visuals and don't want to think at all, it's fine, but otherwise, it's not moving at all.