A school night anime double feature at the Nova - each at around the 45 minute mark.
The Garden of Words was interesting. Lovely animation and poetic mood which I responded to (reminded me of Murakami), but with an odd - and maybe unintended - undertone arising from how it depicts the student-teacher relationship at its centre, even though the unself-discovered nature of the (female) teacher's character is one of the particularly nice elements of the film.
As to the Ghost in the Shell one, I wondered how much I missed by not being familiar with the franchise. It was entertaining enough, but not particularly anything more.
(w/ Kevin)
The Garden of Words was interesting. Lovely animation and poetic mood which I responded to (reminded me of Murakami), but with an odd - and maybe unintended - undertone arising from how it depicts the student-teacher relationship at its centre, even though the unself-discovered nature of the (female) teacher's character is one of the particularly nice elements of the film.
As to the Ghost in the Shell one, I wondered how much I missed by not being familiar with the franchise. It was entertaining enough, but not particularly anything more.
(w/ Kevin)
