THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY FULL MOVIE 2012 FULL
The Borrowers’ home, full of repurposed human objects such as trompe l’oeil “windows” (actually postcards), is rendered in loving detail, as are the circuitous paths leading there from the danger zones of human habitation. The Ghibli adaptation, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and cowritten by Miyazaki, appeals directly to kids’ fantasies about living in secret spaces authority figures can’t access (as did Martin Scorsese’s Hugo). So precarious is her hidden race’s survival that her stoic father, Pod (Will Arnett), and her hysteria-prone mother, Homily (Amy Poehler), are the only other Borrowers she’s known. Young Arrietty (voiced by Bridgit Mendler), the heir to the Clock family, lives an existence almost as constrained as Anne Frank’s in the attic. What a cute premise, right? But anyone who read the Borrowers series as a child knows that, for all her croon-worthy descriptions of tiny household implements, Norton is more concerned with the many forces that menace mouse-size people with extermination. The Secret World of Arrietty is based on Mary Norton’s 1952 novel The Borrowers, about a family of 4-inch-tall people who live clandestinely beneath the floorboards of a country house. In past years, Ghibli’s films have alternated between fantasies based on elements of Japanese folklore ( My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away) and adaptations of English-language books ( Howl’s Moving Castle).
The hand-drawn animations of Hayao Miyazaki and his team are slower and more meditative and introverted than the average American kids flick, but also harder to forget. Not all children’s classics can survive Disney-style adaptation, and for those that can’t, there’s Japan’s Studio Ghibli.
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