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+ <h3 class="blog-title">Welcome To Oz</h3>
+ <h3 class="datestamp">07/08/2025</h3>
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+ This is the second in a series of posts about Mamoru Hosoda's
+ films. The previous entry can be found
+ <a href="thegirlwholeaptthroughtime.html">here.</a> The next
+ one will be available in a few weeks.
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+ <p>
+ It's 2009. The iPhone is brand new. The Wii and the DS are
+ juggernauts, sitting in nearly every home in Japan. The
+ internet is no longer the reserve of weird nerds and
+ teenagers: it has well and truly <b>arrived.</b> Your boss
+ posts on facebook. Brands have signed up to twitter.
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+ But even as the world becomes ever more digital, the world
+ keeps turning, and summer arrives just as it always has.
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+ The Girl Who Leapt Through Time may have leant on nostalgia,
+ but it was also a remarkably forward thinking film. It asks
+ the viewer to savour the time they're given, to look to the
+ future with bright eyes. Summer Wars, meanwhile, is a
+ remarkably futurist film, imaging a world where everything,
+ from train timetables to microwaves to provincial government,
+ is controlled through one central, worldwide application. And
+ yet, despite all that Summer Wars is a film about history.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ I'm being a little bit facetious here - the A-plot in Summer
+ Wars is undeniably a sci-fi bananza, but it is also a straight
+ remake of Hosoda's earlier work on Digimon: Our War Game. You
+ may know it as the middle third of Digimon: The Movie.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ And look, fair cop to Hosoda - he fuckin' nailed it with that
+ short. It survived basically uncut into the movie (which
+ cannot be said of the other two shorts that make it up) and
+ then gets remade with the serial numbers filed off in Summer
+ Wars, and it <i>still absolutely rips.</i>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But the magic of Summer Wars is how it weaves the story of the
+ Jinnouchi clan through each beat of the a-plot. Wabisuke and
+ Sakae are the most important members to the plot, being the
+ creator of Love Machine and the matriarch of the family,
+ respectively, but each member has a chance to shine in their
+ own way.
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