The Bride is hidden, like Esther. The world will not recognise her any more than it does recognise Jesus. She is happy not to be the latest celebrity or attraction, she cares nothing for the flattery of others, but is secure in bridal love and intimacy with the One that she knows brought her forth. Do not expose your flesh, but be hidden. Keep your self for your wedding day, stay pure, flee the lusts and temptations that come.
O Lord my Kinsman Redeemer, I dare to lay beside your feet. Let the corner of your robe cover me, as I surrender all to you my Master and Bridegroom. I have nothing to give except my heart and devotion to you. Come O Lord, you are my greatest desire. Your love is better than wine. You have won my heart, and I am yours, now and forever.
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\u201CThe Secret World of Arrietty\u201D is an unspeakably beautiful little film, one that connects with the heart and mind on every possible level. Having watched the films of Studio Ghibli since I was little, I should no longer be this astonished by the house that Miyazaki built, but I cannot help myself; they are the best at what they do, and each film they release is a revelation. \u201CArrietty\u201D is based on Mary Norton\u2019s classic novel \u201CThe Borrowers,\u201D but writer Hayao Miyazaki and director Hiromasa Yonebayashi make the material their own, infusing it with unparalleled visual creativity, wonderfully endearing characters, and a poignant, underlying sense of melancholy that speaks to a special, intangible place in the hearts of every viewer. For children or for grown-ups, it is the best film playing in theatres this weekend, and I doubt it will be surpassed for some time. Continue reading after the jump...
When it comes to Ghibli, I am always amazed, first and foremost, by their storytelling, for Miyazaki and company avoid the conventions and pitfalls that so often destroy lesser films. I can imagine a horrifying American version of \u201CArrietty\u201D where the title character\u2019s parents try to quash her free-spirited nature, the humans are portrayed as evil, and Arrietty is berated by her kind for falling in love with one of them. Yonebayashi\u2019s \u201CArrietty\u201D does none of this. Arrietty is a marvelous, strong-willed protagonist, and no more needs to be made of it than that. She has a pleasant, loving relationship with her parents, Pod and Homily, and there is no obnoxious family drama to speak of. She befriends a human, yes, and while this turns into love, it is not romance. Their love is far less obvious and far more meaningful. There is a human antagonist bent on capturing the Borrowers, which is the closest the story strays towards convention, but even this works in the film\u2019s favor, for it adds a necessary weight to the emotional finale.
Most importantly, I love that Miyazaki and Yonebayashi are willing to forego a plot-driven structure in order to simply spend time with these characters, to watch the Borrowers operate in their wondrous little world and let the relationships develop organically. This is where the film\u2019s true beauty lies. Arrietty, a Borrower, and Sean, a human boy living in the house her family borrows from, are drawn together by the sadness in their lives. Arrietty loves her parents, but they are the only other Borrowers she has ever known, and that loneliness has become hard to ignore. Sean, meanwhile, has a fatal heart condition, and has come the countryside for rest and relaxation while waiting for a surgery that has little chance of saving him. Sean\u2019s greatest desire is to be needed, to find someone to whom he isn\u2019t a burden, and Arrietty simply wants a friend. Together, they fulfill the empty places in the other\u2019s soul. Their relationship develops in the subtlest, most beautifully restrained of ways, each scene they share producing smiles and tears in equal measure. Their final exchange, in particular, goes for an emotional wallop unsurpassed even by the greatest of Ghibli movies.
The animation is just as breathtaking as the characters, and while I could waste your and my time searching for the proper adjectives to describe it, such efforts would be futile. Watching \u201CArrietty\u201D is akin to visiting a lovely art museum; the colors, the attention to detail, the simplistic yet fluid character work\u2026all of it is gorgeous to a degree unseen in American animation, and the crazy thing is, this isn\u2019t even First-Tier work for Studio Ghibli. Some of the Miyazaki-helmed movies, like \u201CSpirited Away\u201D or \u201CPonyo,\u201D are even more lavish than this. Yet you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a better musical score than Cecile Corbel\u2019s, even in the world of Ghibli. Her compositions never pander or manipulate, but find a poignant aural connection to the emotions of each scene, enhancing every moment of the experience.
Of all the wonders there are to behold in \u201CThe Secret World of Arrietty,\u201D I was most surprised by the English voice-work. It\u2019s no secret that I\u2019ve disliked Disney\u2019s English dubs of prior Ghibli films, mainly for their insistence on miscasting random celebrities in major roles, but \u201CArrietty\u201D is dubbed with authenticity and passion. The actors leave their egos behind and simply inhabit these characters. Amy Poehler and Will Arnett voice the parents, Homily and Pod, but you won\u2019t recognize them; they disappear into the parts, particularly Arnett, who has clearly studied the deep-voiced, stern-but-fair Japanese archetype his character belongs to. Bridgit Mendler, meanwhile, is an absolute revelation as Arrietty; she\u2019s free-spirited, strong-willed, and enthusiastic, but in a grounded, endearing way. As Sean, David Henrie does something few voice actors would be willing to do: he puts energy on the shelf in favor of soft, gentle melancholy. It works wonderfully; he and Mendler have a beautiful chemistry, one that feels raw and intimate to a degree no other English dub has ever achieved.
I have only scratched the surface of what \u201CThe Secret World of Arrietty\u201D has to offer; the rest is for you to discover, and discover it you absolutely should, especially if you a parent looking to entertain your children. \u201CArrietty\u201D will foster their hearts and minds, not just their senses, and this is what sets Ghibli apart from the majority of American animation. There won\u2019t be a better family film playing in theatres for a long time; take advantage of this opportunity while you can.
You know those games that you can never really get into, but you keep dipping back into, time and again? For me, they tend to be MMORPGs, and two in particular - City of Heroes, which I'd often feel the urge to just fire up for a weekend and clobber some stuff, and World of Warcraft, which I always jump into each expansion pack to take my Undead Mage out of storage for one more adventure. The Secret World is also on my list, but from the other direction. It's a game that ticked every one of my boxes when it first came out, save the one about actually having fun with it. Yet I've been back several times, always secretly hoping that at some point it will have morphed into the single-player Vampire: Bloodlines type game its world constantly cries tortured screams to have been.
Well, spoiler: It hasn't. And yes, I know in my heart that it never will. However, last month... actually, wait, we're in May. Bah! Fine. Back in March then, Funcom launched what it called 'The Enhanced Player Experience'. Well, it's been a quiet week. I thought I'd see if it's helped things out any.
Just in case you're not aware of The Secret World, it's an MMO that placed its bets almost entirely on story and narrative and quickly ended up losing its shirt as a result. It came out mid-2012 as a standard subscription MMO, sold around 200,000 copies at launch, and became (shudders at the term) buy-to-play within six months. It was a bomb that reportedly took out about half of Funcom, and almost immediately faded into obscurity. This isn't intended as a scientific analysis or anything, but I remember seeing more stories about Anarchy bloody Online's latest patch than this one.
For the second time this year, I fired up the epic download and jumped back in. Speaking as a member of the Illuminati, I'm always a little surprised not to log in and find 50,004 increasingly angry phonecalls from faction handler Kirsten Geary (quite literally Kieron Gillen's alternate universe self in high-heels) demanding to know where the shit I've been. She's one of the best reasons to side with the Illuminati, along with the fact that Jeffrey Combs is their doctor - as well as the headmaster of an Illuminati run school on Solomon Island who is easily one of my favourite characters in the whole game so far. It just goes to show, everything's better with Jeffrey Combs. Except Gotham. (Seriously, every genre show gets one chance to play the Combs card, and it spent it on that? Good grief...)
The Secret World is of course the clash between secret societies at the end of days. Lovecraftian horrors are invading New England, an ancient evil is rising in Egypt, vampires are stalking Transylvania, and that's to say nothing of each side's schemes and counterplans and mutual distrust for other organisations around the edges, notably the Orochi Group and the Secret World equivalent of the UN, The Council of Venice. You're a new recruit given magic powers by swallowing a bee... just roll with it... drafted in to push your side's agenda in each new trouble spot, while being repeatedly reminded that being able to throw magic lightning from your fingers or whatever doesn't make you a superhero. It makes you cannon fodder, and just another conscript in an army.
Dipping in is all the reminder I ever need that The Secret World isn't a bad game. When it's on form, it's a fucking brilliant game. It's easily the best written MMO ever made, even if the unfortunate decision to make the characters mute generally leaves everyone else with little to do but monologue incessantly. That's definitely one of the Big Mistakes that sunk it on release, making it too tempting to just skip the characters and especially the more casual dialogue that fleshes out the world. The occasional quip about your silence and cute slapstick moment aside, it's too much. In fact, hold that thought. We'll be back to it quite a few times over the next few hundred words. 152ee80cbc
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