A Silent Voice (2016)

A Silent Voice (2016)

A coming-of-age movie that circles around friendship and the atonement of a boy

The Very Best

8.7

Movie

Japan
Drama
2016
NAOKO YAMADA
Aoi Yuki, Kensho Ono, Mayu Matsuoka

The take

Watching A Silent Voice, sensitive viewers will likely feel repulsion toward the main character, Shoya Ishida — and maybe you should, for the awful things he did as a kid. You might even feel the urge to jump into your screen and protect Shouko Nishimiya, the deaf girl who is new at school. A beautifully crafted anime, the story captures a high-school bully’s remorse and despair as he tries to redeem himself from past wrongdoing, demonstrating that even the cruelest among us can become vulnerable to feelings of shame and regret. While it is heart wrenching, the story is also full of hope, showing how to ask for forgiveness, as well as how to give it. Beyond the great script, animation, colours, and scoring, each shot of A Silent Voice is a masterpiece in and of itself.

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