Whisper of the Heart

Some time ago I mentioned here that I'd been given, through the informal file sharing networks, a small, rather blurry copy of the film "Whisper of the Heart". It since became probably my favorite film of all. I'd shown it to my niece, Lois, who came to love it too, and through her, my sister, Sue.

Today Sue visited me, bringing a DVD of "Whisper of the Heart" she'd bought. We watched it together and I fell in love with it all over again. What a truly marvellous piece of work that film is. Not long after it began I had goosebumps. I chuckled at many points and sighed with tears in my eyes at a few parts of the story. It is not often that I find such a relentlessly, unapologetically optimistic story, and one that has such wise observations to make about the human condition, making them with gentle humor and depth of emotion. This is a film that, by the time it ends leaves you refreshed, invigorated, uplifted. Many films these days leave you feeling like you've been put through an emotional wringer, exhausted, spent. I wish I had many more stories here that buoyed the mind like Whisper does.

I want to write something that feeds the mind the way Whisper does... though unfortunately it won't be this year.