Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Kôjô

In my own interpretation, the movie aims to show that life is not essentially a search for happiness or control; life is a search for meaning. When we give ourselves a cause to serve or another person to love, we become more human, and we love ourselves more. The movie represents love as a power that offers the experience of dreaming and helps you escape loneliness. The world needs love. The power of love is what can help you survive. Love is about wisdom. Love is what makes our hearts live and beat. The movie succeeded in addressing the theme of love and showing its importance and how it gives meaning to our lives. While it is true that love has a bright side, on the other hand, it also has a dark side that can break your heart and destroy your own life.

I never write reviews usually, but I was compelled to this time.

I decided to watch Maboroshi because the poster intrigued me. I have no idea how this film only currently has a 6.3 rating. I found it unique, interesting and quite profound. Usually films/television shows that have a central theme of time travel/passage of time, suffer from convoluted explanatins of how the situation occurred. Whilst Maboroshi, does fall into this trap, the characters do a decent job of making us understand how the incident happend. The film also has great artwork, score and voice acting as well. Definitely worth a watch.

Watched the movie without expectations and reading synopsis. Entering it to experience the full movie as it is on Netflix was indeed good for me. It was an urge to research more when i was slightly confused in the beginning and had a lot of whys. Nearer the end, feel that the confusing parts may not fully matter but it's the relationships and impacts they bring to the individuals and why they feel so n had to do so. Warm fuzzy simple family and romantic feelings you will encounter. Not gonna put in specific spoilers as I'd implore you to watch with an open mind. The only slight discount is that i wish the show can elaborate more about the main characters' lives. Good job mappa but that 1* discount is also to remind them to be humane to give staff rest time to create better works✌🏻💪🏻

I don't like symbolism, metaphores and allegories. The movie was confusing but it is very simple in a way. Growing up, changing, love, sexuality. Japan loves making such movies. Anyway it is not what I wanted to watch, I am not a teen, I thought this was some fantasy.

Synonyms: Alice and Therese's Illusion Factory, The Illusion Factory of Alice and Therese

Alice like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland I should have paid more attention to the title, no wonder the movie doesn't make sense!

I watched Suzume no Tojimari a few days ago. I liked it. I heard Suzume was nominated for the Annie Awards (Animation Awards)

It's a cool movie, but it just happens to be another one of those japanese movies that has a pretty good start, with a good aim on what it's about, but somewhere near the end, the metaphors and meanings stars hiting everythinf they can; it's almost like they want to make the movie to be about everything, and honestly it doenst work, not when you start doing this at the very end. It got confusing and extra explanatory; it didnt even seem real anymore.

I really liked where it was going, but this urge they felt for talking about a bunch of emotions at the end with almost no development to most of them just kinda of messed everything up. I'm just saying that, it is better to keep it simple and targetted than start adding a lot of unecessary dialogue about emotions that you'll have to explain because they weren't developed to be simply undestood by context.