When Marnie Was There

In April 2020, I watched the animated movie When Marnie Was There for the first time on TV. The Studio Ghibli film was released in 2014. The director is not Hayao Miyazaki but Hiromasa Yonebayashi. It is based on the novel of the same title written for children by Joan G. Robinson in 1967. 

A girl named Anna lost her mother and grandmother in her early childhood and has been raised by her foster parents. One day, she begins to close her heart against anybody, and then she suffers from asthma, so her foster parent Yoriko asks her relatives to take care of Anna during the summer at theirs in a village by the sea. Anna meets with a blond girl named Marnie in the wetlands and gradually changes. The movie elaborately describes the movement of Anna's mind through. 

I could not get interested in it at first but I began to be gradually drawn from around the middle. Then, I was moved at the end. I think that it is a shame to stop watching it halfway. The film was interesting and good. After watching it, I recalled some scenes where I could not understand, and then I appreciated the scenes, which was enjoyable. I think that I might feel newly impressed when I watch it next time. 

Anna is 12 years old. I think that children around at the age are most half-baked and difficult. When I was eleven, one day, my girl classmates suddenly started to frequently talk to me, so I felt that I became popular among them, then I was secretly overjoyed. Some weeks later, however, the most beautiful girl teasingly said to me that you quickly turned red and were really funny. I then realized that the girls talked to me only because they wanted to watch me reddening. The blushing me just quite amused them. In fact, I was not popular among them. I immediately came to hate the girls. Although the symptom gradually subsided as I grew older, yet even now I do not like girls in her early teens and when I see them, I swear in my mind and feel an impulse to tell them to grow up fast.