{"id":10495,"date":"2020-06-18T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-whisker-away-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:18:00","slug":"a-whisker-away-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-whisker-away-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Whisker Away Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fc6a3af11\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fc6a3af11\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-whisker-away-movie-review\/#Nick_Allen\" >Nick Allen<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-whisker-away-movie-review\/#A_Whisker_Away_2020\" >A Whisker Away (2020)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#A Whisker Away<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/a-whisker-away-movie-review-2020\/a-whisker-away-movie-review-2020.jpg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>The cute factor\u00a0in Netflix\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/anime-manga\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"Anime || Manga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anime<\/a> film \u201cA Whisker Away\u201d is bountiful enough, even if its love story of naive obsession is a little more than worrisome. One could say this is about the delusions of puppy love, but aha, they&#8217;d be wrong\u2014&#8221;A Whisker Away&#8221; is all about cats.<\/p>\n<p>In this film from directors Junichi Satoh and Tomotaka Shibayama, a girl named Miyo (Mirai Shida)\u00a0turns into a cat whenever she wants to be close to\u00a0to Hinode (Natsuki Hanae), a young boy who doesn&#8217;t share the same level of infatuation. But she can still get close to Hinode, and watch him work on pottery with his grandfather, by putting on a cat mask that instantly turns her into a white kitty with glacier-blue eyes. Thinking that the cat is a friendly stray,\u00a0Hinode even names this cat after his beloved old pet Taro, a gesture among many\u00a0that makes Miyo silently swoon.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>In human form, Miyo has a big personality\u2014she\u2019s known derisively by her classmates as \u201cMuge,\u201d meaning \u201cMiss Ultra Gaga and Enigmatic\u201d\u2014and is very forward with how she feels about Hinode, though is constantly clumsy about it. She even has an act called the Hinode Sunrise, in which she speeds towards Hinode and bumps into him butt to butt. Later on, as the mental lines of being a cat and simply acting like one become hazy, Miyo even jumps off a school roof to defend his honor against bullies two stories below, scraping herself up despite landing like a cat. The story is very sincere about her devotion,\u00a0even though it makes one worry about young viewers getting the wrong impression\u2014smothering your crush is simply a bad\u00a0idea, as bold as emotional openness might be.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The villain of this story is a cat known as Mask Seller, who gives Miyo the ability to transform in a rushed opening scene. Always with a big grin on his face, Mask Seller is a mighty chunky, back-flipping, scene-stealing tabby that would make a killing on Instagram, but instead harvests the souls of cats and humans alike. When Miyo foolishly decides that she wants to stay in cat form in order to be close to Hinode and escape her buried woes\u00a0(like the trauma of her mother abandoning her), Mask Seller does not dissuade her from it.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In all of its equal whimsy and romance,\u00a0\u201cA Whisker Away\u201d has plenty of lessons\u2014or depending on the audience, reminders\u2014that it wants to impart. Namely, that a human wouldn\u2019t want to trade lives with a cat, even if your crush seems to embrace you more in cat-form. And as it works through Miyo\u2019s immaturity, the progressively clever <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> looks at Miyo&#8217;s actions from\u00a0the perspectives of others, as people realize that her exuberance is its own mask for her pain. But this film being as blunt with dialogue as it is, it also has a faceless teacher talk during a throwaway class moment\u00a0about how \u201cwe can\u2019t ever really know someone\u2019s full emotion,\u201d just in case we miss the way the third act underlines and puts it in bold later.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>A wholesome fantasy built of serene settings and cute animals is more fun when it gets a little wacky, and thankfully \u201cA Whisker Away\u201d has some left-field ideas to make\u00a0the tale more magical as it goes along. There are rules, secret pathways and more, as if the movie were building its own furry cosplay mythology. &#8220;A Whisker Away&#8221;\u00a0gets particularly kooky when a real cat enters the mix, and gets some cute jokes out of what might happen if a cat took human form (like their lack of boundaries with humans, or how they&#8217;d sleep). And a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to Cat Island later on has a startling appearance, its towering existence looking\u00a0contrary to the one in real life.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But how is the straight-up cat content in &#8220;A Whisker Away&#8221;? Pretty good\u2014I didn\u2019t even get to a sassy household cat named Kinako, who has a distaste for Miyo that is nicely brought into the fold later.\u00a0And then Cat Island, with its striking\u00a0supporting cat characters\u2014it&#8217;s simply amusing to see some of these puffy, furry faces\u00a0in larger form, even if they&#8217;re sitting at a bar and expressing regret over their similar\u00a0life choices.\u00a0There\u2019s also something warmly playful about a movie that\u00a0imagines a human and a cat truly understanding each other, and what it might be like if our feline friends hung on our every word.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Available on Netflix today, 6\/18.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Allen\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/nick-allen\/featured_NickAllen.jpg\" title=\"Nick Allen\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Nick_Allen\"><\/span>Nick Allen<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Nick Allen is an Assistant Editor at RogerEbert.com and is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Whisker Away movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/movie\/movie_poster\/a-whisker-away-2020\/large_whisker-away-poster.png\" title=\"A Whisker Away movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Whisker_Away_2020\"><\/span> A Whisker Away (2020) <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p> <meta content=\"NR\" itemprop=\"contentRating\"><\/meta> Rated NR  <\/p>\n<p> 104 minutes <meta content=\"PT104M\" itemprop=\"duration\"><\/meta><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/video-games\/the-last-of-us-part-ii-redefines-the-horror-video-game-experience\/thumb_TLOUPII_Review_Screenshot_01.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 24 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/i-was-surrounded-by-love-spike-lee-on-the-protests-and-da-5-bloods\/thumb_D5B_Unit_08051RC.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 2 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/a-legend-to-us-all-jeanine-basinger-on-mae-west\/thumb_west1.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 2 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/features\/real-treasure-the-reunion-at-the-heart-of-da-5-bloods\/thumb_da-5-bloods-piece.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 3 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/a-whisker-away-movie-review-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#A Whisker Away&#8221; The cute factor\u00a0in Netflix\u2019s anime film \u201cA Whisker Away\u201d is bountiful enough, even if its love story of naive obsession is a little more than worrisome. One could say this is about the delusions of puppy love, but aha, they&#8217;d be wrong\u2014&#8221;A Whisker Away&#8221; is all about cats. 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