Name: another great one from studio Chizu!
Item: BELLE
Rating: 75
Author: CJF07122

another great one from studio Chizu!

My opinions on Belle.

I watched this movie about a week after it became available to me as it didn't release where i'm from as early as it did in japan. It stars a young high school girl, "Suzu" who used to sing with her mother but she had sadly passed away. This had a big impact on her as music was a of alot of importance to her and her mother. But then her friend introduces her to an app where she can be whoever she wants and do what ever she wants, she takes on the fake name Bell.

i had heard alot about this movie before watching but had to wait a while for it to be available which was annoying. It was definitely not what i thought it was about, i did not read the summary of the plot as i like to go into things blind sometimes. the poster and promotional videos were very good and it looks promising.

i would describe this movie as the movie "ready player one" mixed with "beauty and the beast". the ending or what seemed to be the twist was in a way, a very good twist but also didn't excite me as much as i thought it would. Spoilers ahead >

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I think her attempting to save children from an abusive and unhappy home was not the direction i thought it was going but i ended up sympathising for those two children. The guy she has a crush on figuring out it was her surprised me more than that twist, whatever happened at the end between them is beyond me.

The main character, Suzu, was a very nice character and i rooted for her throughout the movie. She's very likeable although she had no clear goal till near the end, her situation definitely made me want to live in a world like that (as did ready player one).her design was simple but her design as belle was even better, it really showed the clear difference between the two personas she had, in U she was more confident and inquisitive because she was more confident due to no one knowing who she was and getting praise for her talents whereas in her real life she was more shy and kept to herself, although some of these traits crossed over too. Her determination to reach her goal in the last half of the movie was very admirable.

the art style reminded me of the other works that Studio Chizu has made such as movies like "The girl who leapt through time", "Mirai" and "Wolf children", all of which i have seen and i also think are very nice movies! some of the scenes with 3D animation were really clean which i have to applaud Studio Chizu for as some 3D animation works are not as well done. I've also seen 3D animation be used to draw the line to differentiate between simulation and reality in movies such as "HELLO WORLD" by the studio "Graphinica".

I rated this movie a 75/100 as it was not one of my favourites but was absolutely a must watch for anyone who likes dystopian movies. Ive never watched a movie like this before, but if i'm honest it could have been much batter if the ending of the movie wasn't based on what happened in the last 20 minutes but rather the whole course of the movie. Sure there was some teasers as to the ending and twist but i thought it wasn't done in the best way.