Visited the Studio Ghibli Collection Pop-Up Shop, open in Santana Row, CA until February 8
Santana Row, San Jose, California
https://usa.kinokuniya.com/studio-ghibli-collection-pop-up-shop
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While we are at reviews: on Christmas Eve we watched “The Boy and the Heron”
Wow was that a weird film. The first 20-30 minutes made it look like a completely different story, and I think I would have preferred if it had just stayed with the story of a boy who deals with war trauma, loss of a family member, and adjusting to a new environment.
In a way I can understand that foreign world to be symbolic of some things that happen in the real world in parallel, but generally it was taking all the time where I would have liked to see Mahito come to terms with his circumstances and his new family while dealing with them more directly.
The Boy and the Heron will be in some some theatres this weekend. Check the link below to see the trailer, and if there is a theatre nearby.
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