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Goshu Cape Fear, The Cellist

Director: Isao Takahata
Year: 1982 Country: Japan Genre: Animation / Musical Score: 7.5/10
Production: Production OH

This is the story of Goshu, a young professional cellist, who during rehearsals for a great concert that is coming, her coach was mad at him because he is playing well enough. Such is the resignation that Goshu himself now seems to feel nothing for music. Luckily, you will find some very special friends: a cat, to help him understand the feeling of music, a cuckoo, which will show the importance of practice and perfection, rhythm and tenderness badger a mouse. Thanks to them Goshu learn the true meaning of music, becoming at last a great interpreter. Before you get excited with "Grave of the Fireflies" (1988), Isao Takahata directed this short film produced by a modest animation studio. The director, preceded by the great reputation acquired by the television series "Heidi" (1974), "Marco" (1976) and "Anne of Green Gables" (1979), embarked on this film in little more than one hour tells a simple story but well told. Furthermore, this film was the last film by Isao Takahata before the creation of the legendary Studio Ghibli with another monster who founded the Japan animation is unique as Hayao Miyazaki.

The highlight tape, of course, and like almost all Ghibli films, designs and animations of animals that are visiting, beginning with a funny smiling cat that starts with each second that goes on display is really the star of the film, continuing with a bird, a tiny and cuddly raccoon and finally a sick rat and calf. With a foundation as simple as its animation (nice, but perhaps not too bright for Japanese industry and well developed in the early 80) the film bases its attention on a delicate sensitivity expressed thanks to the many classical music compositions that accompany and interpreted throughout the footage, which almost earned him the "false" qualifier musical. Takahata's taste at a minimum, the intangible but exciting is subtly evident in "Goshu, The Cellist", which without any artifice achieves a film quite round and without pretension. So simple but so pretty, you no longer need to become a little gem of animation, those that are out there hidden and missing a lot for testing.

course the moral of the belt is noble and invites Never lower the arms to the achievement of stated objectives, while stressing often it is useless to us can be very valuable to other without us noticing. Although the stroke of the pictures is not a wonder, yes they are colorful, so the design and finish of the characters and scenarios are fresh and pleasing to the eye. "Goshu, The Cellist" is a magical and moving story about the power of music and nature. Recall that in the year 82 films like this demonstrating that Japanese animation had much to contribute and tell, showing times, if not most of the time, more dedication and care for their stories, their characters, their messages or their environments, the rest of the Animated Film world. In the film narrated everything seems undeniable linearity for much of the plot. The gallery of animals that go through Goshu house, do not seem a priori, if they do not play much history that demands our attention in reference to that other narrative, which is the situation regarding Goshu orchestra and its conductor.

Seeing a character struggling to become better at what they do, sure we would think that the plot would be sustained in suffering to achieve that goal, but the tape does not stop being fun, the parade of creatures that come the "master" Goshu to enjoy their music and their lessons (although not seem Goshu be very pleasant visits) little by little, we will see, not only are related both situations, but the extreme beauty that finally charged the two. Isao Takahata, strives to focus on his line, his film exudes an undeniable nostalgia and preciousness of rural environments, the serene rural landscapes. It shows the conflict between the urban and the rural world (an issue taken up in his film "Pompoko") presenting the latter as a shelter, equipped with a therapeutic magic regenerates us and keeps us in balance, and the first as the corruptor pure anything that comes into contact with him, as in this case, music, or at least, the experience on Goshu it has our hero. They are animals, representatives of the world attached to nature, you do see the real value of his art.

whole plot is summarized in that, and obviously here is that what matters is the music, created by Michio Mamiya themed orchestrated and a nod to classical composers, finding even a piece of Beethoven. German composer's admiration is clear, this can be seen in the room Goshu having a wall portrait of the creator of the Ninth Symphony. In short, "Goshu, The Cellist" is an interesting way to see how the nascent Ghibli lead to a musical pleasant but hardly captivating. As mentioned above, although the animation is light years ahead of movies with many more years on top, the film fulfills its purpose and also quite entertaining, thanks in part to its short duration (only 63 minutes), which manages to never make us heavy and boring. Recommended for fans and lovers of the current and old Ghibli, as this humble servant is. In addition to those who want to see the beginnings of the creator of the awesome "Grave of the Fireflies."

"Beautiful, but simple environmental fable"