‘The Boy and the Heron’ Review – One of Us
In what could be Miyazaki’s final film (definitely for real this time), check out One of Us crew’s The Boy and the Heron review.
In what seems likely to be master animator and storyteller Hayao Miyazaki’s final film (the man is 82), The Boy and the Heron returns to dark and surreal fantasy and I suspect long-time fans will be beside themselves happy about it. The story follows Mahito, a 12 year old boy whose mother is killed in a hospital fire during the Pacific War. A bit later, his father marries his wife’s younger sister Natsuko and he and Mahito relocate to her family estate in the countryside. Mahito isn’t thrilled, to say the least. He constantly misses his mom and his new stepmom is having a difficult first pregnancy.
When one day, she disappears into the mysterious woods surrounding the estate, Mahito suspects it has something to do with a talking grey heron that has been bothering him and a strange, dilapidated tower building in the woods. Thus, he sets off to other realms entirely with an unreliable sorta-heron as his guide, to try and rescue his new mom. Chris, Ben, Spidermike, and MikeMc take on this newest entry in Studio Ghibli’s impressive list of films.
The Boy and the Heron Review
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