Suzume No Tojimari: My Smile's An Open Wound Without You
When we are neglected, carelessly tossed aside by someone else, it often incites within us an internal violence; a self-preservationist anger that yearns to be seen for our deepest and most vulnerable human devices. The natural reactions to such an experience involve pain, fear, distrust of future connections with others should we be thrown to the wayside and have to repeat that unwanted process all over again. It sticks with us, we remember, and after a while it shows itself in forms unbecoming of the self we want to be, those experiences coming back to haunt us. Beckoning to bring out a darker side than which we wish to express to others, self-awareness only mitigating our most combative responses. Suzume No Tojimari is the final piece of director/writer Makoto Shinkai and CoMix Waves thematic “disaster trilogy” to go along with their previous works of “Your Name” and “Weathering With You.” Inspired by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the film follows 17 year old Su...
