The Secret World of Arrietty

Title: The Secret World of Arrietty or The Borrower Arrietty

Japanese Title: 借りぐらしのアリエッティ

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Genre: Animation, Fantasy

Summary

The story happens in Koganei, Japan. Arrietty is an extraordinarily girl. She and her clansman are tiny people. She was four inches tall. She and her family live under the house belong to a regular-sized human. Arrietty called her race the borrower because their borrow stuffs from human. Of course, human does not know the existence of the borrowers. Sho is a regular human boy. On the first day he moves into live with his great-aunt, Sho discovered Arrietty. Arrietty and Sho becomes friend, but Arrietty and her family have to move because other human had discovered the existence of them.

Review

Can human being coexistence with other races? This is the theme for this animation. Sometime it just not only other races, also, other living things. The borrower is a metaphor of animals that their living inhabit area had invaded by human exploitation. Many animals are extinct because of this. The film features with a 14 year-old girl and boy as the main characters of the story. It is suitable for tweens, but the theme is a little heavy for kids. I think it is good because tweens should start having an understanding about topics that will affect them in the future.