Film: Children of the Sea
Starring: Mana Ashida, Hiiro Ishibashi, Seishu Uragami, Win Morisaki, Goro Inagaki, Yu Aoi, Toru Watanabe, Min Tanaka, Sumiko Fuji
Director: Ayumu Watanabe
Rating: ***
Reviewer: George Sylex
Overview - Filmmaker Ayumu Watanabe's Children of the Sea, follows the pattern of classification rising above narrating with the variation of creator Daisuke Igarashi's equivalent named manga. A visual sonnet that occasionally inclines excessively hard on symbolism to pass on plan and significance, Children of the Sea is a concurrent investigation of independence and cooperation in the midst of a philosophical investigation of mankind's job in the universe.
At the point when a student Ruka (Mana Ashida) gets herself unfit to go through her late spring break with her partners at school and incapable to coexist with her alcoholic mother, she goes to the last spot she felt settled: the neighborhood aquarium her folks used to take her to and where her dad presently works. Upon appearance, she's meets to the secretive Umi (Hiiro Ishibashi) who acquaints her with his sibling Sora (Seishû Uragami). The young men are reputed to have been brought up in the sea by dugongs, a marine well evolved creature which are accepted to have enlivened the mermaid fantasy, which discloses their physical should be in water for delayed timeframes. As they get to know one another, the draw of the water increments inside Ruka too, charging her on the siblings' excursion into the most profound profundities of the sea.
Kino's screenwriting and Watanabe's execution welcome the crowd to incline toward all of Ruka's experience that is as much a story about growing up as it is more stupendous investigation of association. At the center of Children lies a young lady who censures others for her difficulties, unfit to perceive her own part in a tough situation she ends up in. This is advanced legitimately close to the beginning of the film when a fight with a partner prompts her late spring long sidelining, and all the more discretely in a short contention among herself and Sora. Ruka is so inside separated that she cannot recognize her own deficiencies, something which the story constrains her to confront. What's interesting about this part of Children is the means by which it's investigating subtextually, empowering the crowd to see Ruka develop after some time as opposed to offering many talks ambushing the point until the end.
Each shot could be confined; the hues are so dynamic they jump off the screen. A stunning succession right off the bat follows Ruka as she goes through the city, and is later reflected in a scene where she gets one with the downpour as she bicycles. Dolphins relocate to the call of a wondrous tune. Whales banter with their brethren through ground-breaking melody.The story may waver, particularly when it strays from Ruka, Umi, and Sora. Children of the Sea could have utilized some cutting. Yet, this transitioning visual sonnet is so brazenly sentimental, so saturated with amazement and love for nature, its blemishes are anything but difficult to ignore.
Watanabe's tight execution offers the crowd to participate, venturing to such an extreme as to utilize a few viewpoint shots to give us what it is that Ruka sees as she encounters something. It could be something as little as her perspective on being hauled by the hand by Umi as they run toward the water or something more noteworthy, for example, Ruka's perspective on figuring out how to explore the pockets of weight inside the water with the goal that she can swim quicker than previously. Offering a first-individual viewpoint would be gimmicky on the off chance that it weren't so important to the general message of interconnectedness which Kino's story investigates. Ruka turns out to be in excess of a character the crowd follows.
Final Word - Children of the Sea is outwardly appealing and powerful.It leaves you with the feeling that the fine art's limits have been pushed somewhat more extensive as you viewed. The film's visual magnificence will be there with you.
A Visually Rich Viewing Experience!
