![]() Kaguya’s got her oafish father’s number, and when she stands up to him it’s thrilling: “If I see you in a courtier’s cap I’ll kill myself,” she tells him calmly at one point. It wants Kaguya’s unfettered spirit to have its way, but it also recognizes the almost primordial obligation that binds us to family and convention. The movie is so emotionally roiling because it, too, is of two minds. Kaguya, bright and talented and beautiful, suffers through multiple squelchings of her own desire, and then acquiesces to the venal wishes of the authority figures she loves. ![]() ![]() As the girl, soon given the name “Kaguya,” is trained and then visited by a quintet of ostensibly noble suitors, the story turns into a kind of nightmare of patriarchy. Here’s where the movie’s story takes a rather infuriating turn. L’il Bamboo’s heart breaks, but she wants to honor her father’s wishes. ![]() Her adoptive pop has other ideas, especially after “the gods,” as he believes, bestow a lot of gold upon him he goes and buys a castle in the capital, and venture to make the little girl into a genuine princess.
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