Time, the afterlife, and revenge blend together in Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda’s new animated film Scarlet, now showing exclusively in SM Cinemas. Coming off of feature animations such as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Mirai, the former earning him a Best Animated Feature Film nomination at the 91st Academy Awards, director Hosoda’s newest film offers hope in the face of darkness.
Director Hosoda wanted to take the timeless story of revenge and violence and use it to spread positivity to his audience. He’s influenced by the story of Hamlet, but Hosoda’s Scarlet aims to have a more positive outlook, even through the princess Scarlet’s quest for revenge. “The question presented to Scarlet is how to deal with the energy, how to forgive. There are many parallels to our current geo-political landscape and I wanted that reflected in the screenplay. We don’t really have an answer of how to fix that yet but there’s this collective desire of mankind to figure it out because of the cost of war,” he says.
He also offers a haunting description of the Otherworld, his interpretation of the afterlife in which most of Scarlet is set in. ”A place where life and death coexist, and both past and future are all woven together. If you are not strong enough you will disappear into nothingness,” he explains.
Set off on an inspiring quest as Scarlet is now showing exclusively in SM Cinemas.
Photo & Video Credit: “Columbia Pictures”
