Movie of the week: Maquia

A film about a mother who adopts a baby and learns to love him? Usually such films are hallmark/lifetime channel films, full of cliches that turn my stomach as fake (I am a mom with two adoptive kids).

But a recent anime film tells the story of one such mom, an immortal, who risks eternal loneliness by rescuing and learning to love.

 Watch it and try not to cry.

Here is a review of the film.

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Maquia lives as a weaver of lives among the immortals,
She is warned that although she can visit the earth, if she falls in love she will learn to be lonely.

One day their land is attacked and one of the elder girls is kidnapped to provide the king's son with an immortal wife to give birth to a powerful heir.

Maquia ends up in the borderlands where mortals live, and finds a baby whose mother was killed in the raid. She adopts the child and tries her best to be a mother to him.

In other words, the "love" that will make her lonely is not a shallow romance but the love of a mother who works hard to support and protect her son.

And if that isn't nonPC I don't know a plot that is.

In the above review, the reviewer complains the visuals are not as fantastical as many anime films, but to me this is an advantage. Similarly, it doesn't contain a lot of magic and superhero stuff, which my grandson loves but often makes the films childish (note: I hate most Marvel/superhero films too, where magic and overemphasis on visuals/special effects lead to the loss of the core story).

I am not the only adult who loved the movie: It got a 100percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

So if you have a chance to see it in a theatre, or on Amazon prime, please go to see it.

We have access to Netflix but not Amazon prime, so we watched the film with subtitles here, but it might not stream outside of Asia...and there is an English Dubbed version that is on line somewhere too. Kuya found it and said it was done very well.