Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

This review doesn’t include any names, spoilers nor reference to any characters inside the movie, but it does have the various themes tackled by it, so if you wish to watch that movie without any hint of the various themes and topics, please do not proceed! But if you don’t mind, then you are welcomed to read further...

# There are no good or bad summaries for something that moves your heart to the fullest. Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms is one of them. Teaching you kindness, patience, pain, happiness... It brings joy and sadness in a range of 2 hours. Maquia has so much to show you.

First of all, Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms shows you the heart of a human in every shape: as a baby, as someone growing, as a mother, as a family, and as a whole society. It shows what love is capable of, and that love’s path is not always an easy, nor a pretty one. I also like how it reminds you that power -any kind of power, borrowed or acquired- comes with a price that you must be ready to pay for if you are not fit for it, and through every action, you must atone for it. I think this is a reminder that is good to take no matter what.
Finally, even more than what is listed above, Maquia depicts the struggle of a mother and what being a mum is, and thus through multiple points-of-view. This is probably what moved me the most, so many characters in this movie depict motherhood, and the meaning for each is slightly different which makes it beautiful -yet sometimes painful- to notice.

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms moved me to tears more times than I would willingly admit, it brought me sadness and happiness but more than that, it healed me. Maquia is a must-watch, no matter how emotional it is, there is just more to it than some tissues and a sea of tears, there is this final feeling of being one, complete, and having reached a state where you are full of something warm, with a lasting smile on the lips. There are so many movies or anime out there, but not so many can make you feel such a wide range of emotions in -only- 2 hours. I am not sure I could recommend any movies that would have as much of an impact as Maquia had on me, but my favourite movie has always been Kimi No Na Wa for showing more than what just meet the eyes, and for making you feel more than what you would ever expect of a movie that will only take a small amount of your time. In the end, I am happy with my sudden decision to watch Maquia, and I would recommend this movie to anyone that seeks comfort and healing. Also, I would personally tag that movie as a hurt/comfort one, but still, one to watch.

In a nutshell, if you need to remember something before deciding if yes or not you should watch Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, then remember that it will only steal a few of your time, and you can still ~~close it if you don’t like it~~. Okay, seriously now... Maquia is going to show you love in every way, and to me, that is EXACTLY what makes it so stunning.

So I do hope you will take the time to watch it. As kind advice, prepare some tissues beforehand and maybe -just maybe- a bit of your comfort food if you are a crybaby, but at the end of the movie, you won’t need any of it, your lasting feeling will be one comparable to the warmth of a hug, which in itself, isn’t bad at all.

Good binge-watching!