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What he thinks is an olive branch of sorts the borrowers take as a sign that they need to get out faster than ever. In an attempt to make amends-and partly because of his own selfishness at wanting to see the borrowers-Shawn, after finding the location of Arrietty’s home, decides to replace their kitchen with one from a dollhouse that belonged to his mother. He and Arrietty’s mother have decided it’s too late: they’ve been found out, so they have to move. Thinking that will be the end of it, she heads home only to be approached by her father. She scolds the bed-ridden boy and tells him that they don’t need his charity. Arrietty’s pride is much stronger than her desire for safety, as she confronts Shawn rather than listen to what her father says. If she takes it, then the boy will know that they actually exist. The following day, Shawn leaves the sugar cube outside where he thinks Arrietty will find it, but Pod instructs Arrietty not to take it. The two borrowers leave quickly, but not before Shawn happens upon a cube of sugar that Arrietty dropped in their haste to return home. In her excitement for her first borrowing, Arrietty accidentally lingers a little too long gathering a piece of tissue and is spotted by Shawn, the sickly boy who lives in the house they’re borrowing from. ‘Borrowers’ are small (see: near matchstick sized) people who inhabit houses, living off items belonging to the normal-sized people who live there borrowing is the act of retrieving said items. ![]() Today, we review The Secret World of Arrietty: the only Ghibli movie that I will go out of my way to never watch again.īased on Mary Norton’s The Borrowers, the film follows the young Arrietty who has finally reached the age where she can go out ‘borrowing’ with her father, Pod. And whereas my dislike for a film will certainly color my desire to see it in the future, I don’t think there has been a movie so far that I would outright not watch ever again. Tsunderin: So far on our journey through Ghibli’s film library there have been quite a few films that MadameAce and I have disliked.
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