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Kotonoha No Niwa (The Garden Of Words)
I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!!!
A LOT!!!
With that out of of the way...

Takao is an aspiring shoemaker with a strange habit, every rainy morning he skips classes and spends his time in the park, through this he meets an older woman, and their encounters lead to an unique relationship.

Garden of Words is a movie about subtlety, about distances, the silences mean as much as the words do, and sometimes even more, the rainy park tells as much as the characters do, and the core of everything we simply have two strangers talkign in a park, and arguably they don't even talk that much.

The enjoyment of it comes in big part from enjoying the subtely and picking up the hints, it's not a traditional movie, and certain audiences might find it boring.

But for those that are willing to go beyond that, it's an incredibly engaging story about the staleness of life, the nature of love and the unending dsitance between two people.

The animation is gorgeous, it's mostly hand drawn, and it's absolutely stunning and beautiful, the rainy park feels so real and yet so magical, the ambient is perfect, and the movie is deligthful to watch, the music is great, and reinforces all of the scenes perfectly.

Garden of words, might come across as a very simple story, and it might be, but in it I foudn one of the best stories I've ever experienced.

There's no such thing as perfection, but for a while, Kotonoha No Niwa made me believe in it.