MIFF 2017 - Day 5

In This Corner of the World

An anime that in some ways serves as a counterpoint to the grim despair of Grave of the Fireflies, we're presented with the story of Suzu, a young and naive girl from Hiroshima who marries a stranger from Kure and basically we just follow her domestic life during wartime. The animation has a slight childishness to it that neatly suits Suzu's nature. It also serves as a harsher juxtaposition with the horrors the family experiences. It's occasionally awkward, though I can't tell if that's due to cultural specificity or just the writing, but it's genuinely sweet and heartfelt.

Ingrid Goes West

How black do you like your comedies? This is really really black. It's also awesome. Ingrid is desperate to have a friend. So she stalks an instagram celebrity, kidnaps her dog and returns it to ingratiate herself. It goes very Single White Female from there, but her new friends are awful narcissistic people she kind of despises. It's dark, funny and a great skewering of the fake reality social media celebrities.