Review of Whisper of the Heart

The reason I only gave this movie is a 9 is because it's sort of clickbait in both the "whimsical" look of the cover image, and the description of the movie itself paints the story differently than what it is: a mundane tale of a girl just going to school. If the movie started out by what it attempts to achieve in the first place, then this movie would no doubt be a masterpiece. Unfortunately, this is more about a movie about a young school girl, who has an ordinary school life, and nothing is happening in a plot. So, if I just wanted to watcha 2 hour slice of life, I could just stop watching and go do my own homework.

But in honesty, this film is not going to get the same praise from me where other movies / animes do in their "everyday life" plots. Because, unlike other anime shows that have something interesting in the plot, this is just a stretched out slice of life with the interesting parts all going into the girl's project that she later begins working on.

Which is a HUGE, let down when her eventual "project" begins, because the story there is FAR better than the actual main story. So, that's a little bit to summarize this movie overall.

Not to mention, the movie description reads as this girl that writes "poetry" and encompasses themes about books, yet fellow artists and book lovers out there, let me say this is not the movie for us.

This is a bland movie in its worst, and a Ghibili touch of creativity at its best. It's a movie better left running in the background of some static tv.