“A silent voice” by Kyoto Animation, an animated Romantic drama movie, directed by Naoko Yamada is an exceptionally excellent movie that highlights one of the most significant problems in our life, bullying or rather, dealing with bullying, and this time from the side of the bully. And I wanted to tell you about it.
The story takes place in our modern days in Japan and it is divided into two core parts. The first part is about a school student — Shoya Ishida, a troubling and popular boy, and a deaf yet kind student — Shoko Nishimiya, a new student in Ishida’s class. Ishida recklessly causes everyone to bully Nishimiya because she is deaf and he even does it himself.
As part of the bullying, he broke Nishimia's hearing aid several times, which eventually caused her mother to transfer the girl to another school. This is when Shoya went too far. From now on he became the center of attention in his school. Shoya was considered guilty of the bullying in his class. And just like that, the tables have turned, and he became an undesirable student who got bullied. The second part is the main part of the movie, which happens five years after the first part. Shoya is older, lonely, and tired from his life. He tries to cope with his past, and redeem himself from his acts. He wants to hide his past actions to become a better person.
The story has a powerful message of the way people treat others, the story teaches us to regret bad things that we have done in the past, treating others respectfully, and giving second chances even if we are afraid of it. "We live in a world in which judgement is more important than getting to know that person" # Art & Music The art style of the film is equally amazing in an extraordinary way. I feel extremely fortunate to witness such an art. The music is outstanding down to the most minor detail. Many people say they did not like the song in English at first, but I fell in love with it and I think it adds. # TL;DR, Worth watching? Even if you are just a normal movie watcher or an anime fan, if you like tragedy or drama, you will enjoy this movie no matter what age you are, you will love it. I think that it is a very emotional and enjoyable movie, that we all can learn from, and I think it's a must-watch movie.
