well, the movie ends and suddenly there's another track. The music is lovely - there is the feel of a Scottish ballad to it, and weaves itself well into the film. Producer Toshio Suzuki felt that a french artist named Cecile Corbel was the person to write the theme songs for Arrietty and Shawn. But he's nowhere to be found on this soundtrack. Lately, I've had the soundtrack to Spirited Away on repeat, and so I was looking forward to more music by Joe Hisaishi.
Outside, the rain has a heavy sound to it, the crows "caw" just the way they do in Japan (I'm always struck by how they actually say, "caw! caw!" in Japan, as opposed to a screech here in the U.S.) You'll even swear that you can hear the humidity in the air -but maybe it's just the honeyed sounds of locusts singing about summer. You hear the way the world sounds to us humans, and then suddenly you realize that without noticing the transition, you're listening to the gigantic world as it sounds to a Borrower - the room tone is huge, the clock is suddenly deafening. Swoon doesn't do it justice.Įven the sound design transports you in and out of worlds. Each droplet of water sparkled - and as Arrietty's mother poured her family a cup of tea, or served them soup, you could see the surface tension on the droplets as they pushed out of the tiny kettles and pots. Everything was done with such care - flowers that you could reach up and pluck off the screen, the intricate bits and bobs around the house - both human and Borrower. It's the kind of beauty that makes you instinctually place your hand over your heart, lest it fill up with gorgeousness and break. Scenes would change, and I would audibly gasp as I took in the loveliness and exquisite attention to detail. Nature always plays a big role in Studio Ghibli films, but in The Secret World Of Arrietty, nature is the absolute star. Arrietty is a 14 year old Borrower, and it's her first time to go "borrowing." But Borrowers must never be seen by humans, and when an invalid boy named Shawn spots Arrietty, her whole family's life is thrown into turmoil. I've always been taken with the idea of tiny people just out of sight, living their lives around us - be they Borrowers, Faeries, or Leprechauns.
The story is based upon the famous children's book series, "The Borrowers" by Mary Norton. So, yes, you could say that this film has been "highly anticipated" here at Chez Rutherford. I've been looking at it every day since then. When we were in Tokyo visiting the Ghibli Museum in 2010, we grabbed a couple to take home. On my kitchen wall hangs a flyer advertising the Japanese version of The Secret World Of Arrietty. It's safe to say that he is considered a master of animated film.
To even have this tiny, tiny part in a Miyazaki film is one of the greatest honors ever bestowed on me. There are Totoros everywhere, stuffed catbuses and soot sprites litter the floor, and on my desk (where I am typing this right now!) is a tiny replica of Howl's Moving Castle, another soot sprite, and a postcard of " Le Voyage de Chihiro." Our daughter's first movie - both here at home and in a movie theatre is " My Neighbor Totoro." (Thank heavens we live in a city where you can find random Miyazaki retrospectives playing at local art houses!)īack in 2007 I was very lucky to be cast in a small role in Howl's Moving Castle.
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