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Forum - View topicREVIEW: Fureru. Anime Film Review
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EmeraldSaucer
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Sadly found Fureru to easily be the weakest Super Peace Busters project and left it feeling generally disappointed, especially after having to wait a year and change for its release. The supernatural component of Fureru's connective threads, besides being extremely telegraphed in its setup and payoff, was just not a very compelling hook for this movie compared to the ghosts of childhood crushes or the more strictly metaphorical curse of Anthem of the Heart. On a more cynical level, it could almost come across more like producers coming up with the image of a recognizable mascot rather than a resonant concept to build a story around
On the character front I did find Aki well-realized in the ways his immaturity shines through, both in his failures to communicate with others and in his proclivity for violence as an easy shortcut. But the problem was that Aki was basically the only character who I thought was well-realized, with Ryo and Yuta getting the short end of the stick and Nana and Juri feeling more like accessories than characters. Yuta's story felt particularly scuffed; he is ostracized and ridiculed within his college for his background, he has a connection to Nana's stalker (who he has no scenes with after the stalker comes to their home, before they know his identity), he develops a crush on Nana (which doesn't work out and he never really reconciles with her after the botched celebration), and after that... he just goes back to college and now is friendly with his asshole classmates (who last we saw took the time to also be shitty to Aki for being an "islander") I guess. It all comes across like a half-finished sketch. And oh boy Nana. After Nana gets labelled vapid and a slut multiple times throughout the movie, her final contribution and her character's "punchline" is that she's only interested in Aki because of his face and height, which feels vaguely insulting if not outright gross I can understand to an extent wanting to keep the audience closely narrowed in on Aki from a thematic standpoint, that we cannot truly know the inner lives of these characters the way we could our protagonist. But 1) the film strays from Aki's viewpoint a bit too much if that was the intent and 2) at a point this comes at the cost of these characters being interesting (or, as I mentioned above, they can seem more tool to facilitate drama than character) And while there are some nice cuts and Nagai remains an overall good director, visually this felt like a noticeable step down from Her Blue Sky, especially when it came time for the climax. Not that they didn't try to emulate the latter movie in some ways with the scenes inside Fureru, only instead of the liberating crescendo of a movie's worth of imagery and pent-up feelings our trio falling through the sky feels random and out-of-place with everything that came before. And it's not as though I would necessarily mind a more visually low-key approach (either in the aforementioned scene or in the climactic moment of Aki methodically zip-lining to Fureru while the other two kinda just stand there), had we been given more texture to these characters to give these moments the impact Nagai and Okada so clearly want them to have Overall the movie wasn't all bad (Fureru's threads inadvertently causing two people nervously talking about their dinner plans to blurt out their love for each other was cute), but man I hope the next outing of the Super Peace Busters is a return to form |
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harminia
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Ughhh it was so painful. It's the one moment of the film that sticks with me the most. It was sooo uncomfortable. And honestly it made me really hate the boys. None of them came off well from it, and it was hard for me to care about them afterwards because they were such dickheads. I wonder if this film works better for guys than for girls. I personally didn't like it as much as the reviewer, but I wonder if some of that is because I'm not a guy. It was pretty but the writing was not great and the ending was pretty weak. And the girls just did not feel fleshed out enough, so they sort of felt like obligatory love interest inserts rather than characters. God just remembering that bar scene is making me angry. |
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