While the character designs are still detailed, they inhabit a very realistic feeling Japanese urban city.
#A shape of voice 2 movie
The music is beautiful, and frequently gives way to bouts of chaos and distortion, perhaps the sort of sounds she would experience.Ī Silent Voice is hugely warm and colourful.Ĭompared to the manga, the art of the movie is a bit softer. The film’s score and audio mix represent “her side” a bit more - some distorted, piercing sound effects, and occasional drops to absolute silence. She may be shy, but has a quiet frustration at the world in her inability to easily communicate. Nishimiya, even after she transferred, is still going through a lot. The shape of Ishida’s voice is cut-up, unable to focus on other people’s eyes. It’s very smartly done, and an effective way of getting across that sense of lack of comfort through direction and framing alone. Shots with Ishida are frequently framed “off”, the characters not quite fitting into frame, or groups being “cut off” in different shots despite being right next to each other.
Frequently during Ishida’s interactions with others we just see shots of their arms, their legs, their feet. The faces around him are literally impossible to look at, represented by them being covered with “crosses”. The shape of Ishida’s voice is cut-up, unable to focus on other people’s eyes.īecause of his depression Ishida has trouble connecting with almost everyone else, especially when it comes to his high school. Despite this it’s a movie that is rarely bleak, and always hopeful.
Both Ishida and Nishimiya are quite damaged, and through their reconnection A Silent Voice explores some pretty hefty themes - isolation, depression, self-harm. Eventually, with a sense of having ruined everything in his life, he tries to “put everything back together”, starting with reconnecting with Nishimiya (having learnt sign language at some point after she transferred away). Years later Ishida is in high school, and is hugely depressed and regretful about his life and his past actions. Eventually this comes to a head with Nishimiya transferring to another school, and Ishida becoming shunned by his peers. Ishida observes this, but lashes out, using teasing her to gain popularity. Her classmates start nice, but eventually the toil of having to help her understand classes begins to wear on the group. Things start off going okay for her, mainly using her notebook to communicate in written words. It starts off in elementary school with Shoya Ishida, a rough and seemingly carefree troublemaker, meeting Shoko Nishimiya when she transfers into his class.
A Silent Voice is all about communication, or perhaps in most cases the lack of it, and how confusing and hard that can be in life, especially for young people growing up.Ī Silent Voice is rarely bleak, and always hopeful. Not in terms of literal “voice”, but “communication”. The film’s title, whether taken as A Silent Voice of The Shape of Voice (I think thematically I actually prefer the latter interpretation), is hugely appropriate, as that’s what the movie is all about.
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