Where Is Anne Frank

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Seems this preachy animation can't bring itself to show the German occupiers as real people with their real and foul ways - instead they de-humanise them as shadow creatures to divert from the fact that it was ordinary people that slaughtered millions. Deep misunderstanding or intentional misdirection of the history in all aspects from how the Frank family lived to how they were murdered. I'm sure this film was made with good motives - but descends into an patronising insult to truth. As a piece of film, one can credit it with some good animation but that's the only merit. Lost opportunity to make something thought provoking.

This movie was a Magical Realism about Anne Frank Imaginary friend named Kitty, who wakes up in the Modern Day Amsterdam. The film tells the story of Anne and Kitty in the Netherland during the Nazi Occupation and the 21st Century of the Netherland. I know about Anne Frank, and I have a Book that Anne Wrote when she was in a Safehouse during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherland. The Story of Annes Frank was tragic, she died in the Nazi's Death Camp, and I know that we should say that War is Hell. I love this movie because the film tells the story of Shoah to the Our Generation. And I think so that I will recommended this movies to watch and I gave this movies to 7/10.

This is a very good movie, and I really liked it. So rating it just 8 stars is, as far as I'm concerned, plain shame. But there are two very annoying faults standing between this movie and the perfect mark. I mean, it is beautifully animated and acted. The two leads are simply wonderful. Namely Emily Carey as Anne Frank really feels like the girl who survived two years in a hidden apartment, stuck with her own family, another family and a crude dentist. And Ruby Stokes is perfect as the temperamental imaginary friend created by Anne Frank as a literary ploy in order not to speak with herself in her now famous diary. In fact I also loved the idea of the movie using this imaginary friend as a bridge between present day Europe and the days when the actual diary was written and it worked superbly almost all the way through. And then we reach the ending and the perfect movie is turning all of a sudden from deep and thought provoking into simplistic attempt to solve the entire international refugees problem with a wave of a hand and a few brush strokes. And it also commits the sin of turning too preachy, as if it doesn't trust the viewers to get its point without having it spelled out in plain words. The movie didn't need this bluntness it was working so well without it.

This movie is not afraid to mix a lot of ideas to remember the spirit of Anne Frank. The idea is to keep alive a war against racism and intolerance in a modern and brilliant movie. The animation is amazing and the way it represents nazism is absolutely beautiful and horrifying. Maybe I disagree a lot when I see parallels between Europeans Cops and nazis, so the movie is not perfect as was Congress. But maybe to show to the young generation when our aged grand parents will disappear with the memory of this horrible war.

I thought they did the Anne Frank portion really nicely with her story and legacy, but I found the present-day part with Kitty, Peter and the refugees and their whole story really annoying and unnecessary. Firstly, the romance between Kitty and Peter was really annoying and unnecessary, as this did not fit into or have anything to do with the story of Anne Frank, just seeming to be put there for the sake of including a romance (and of course because his name was also Peter just like Anne's Peter), because of course everything has to include a romance in now. It made no sense given they'd just seemingly known each other for a few days, if that, and suddenly Peter is claiming he is in love with her! Speaking of Peter, I found it really annoying how we were actually supposed to like him yet he steals of lots of people, being shown to pickpocket the wallets of all the visitors in the Anne Frank house, something which is never addressed or resolved, as he never shows any remorse for this or redeems this at all, with the film just being like "Who cares if he stole loads of people's money, he loves Kitty!" So I did not like Peter at all and his romance with Kitty and was annoyed that we were actually supposed to, like he's horrible to everyone else but Kitty, yet we're just supposed to like him simply because he loves Kitty, as who cares about everyone else losing their money?! I also found the whole part nearer the end with the refugees really annoying, as it seemed like they were trying to cram too many social justice issues in at once, as well as this taking away the initial focus of the Anne Frank story. It just became way too preachy, and Kitty became increasingly irritating and annoying with her sudden preachy attitude, the way she actually threatened to burn Anne Frank's diary unless the police stopped trying to deport the refugees. This was just absolutely ridiculous and way too much, and Kitty was just very irritating as a character like this, as the film seemed to stray away from the focus of Anne Frank and WW2 and instead focus on all these other social justice themes of refugee-ism and focus on being preachy and extreme protesting, which had nothing to do with Anne Frank. It also really undermined and was rather disrespectful to the story of Anne Frank and WW2, as while refugee-ism is clearly a major concern, it is really wrong to actually compare it to the Jewish holocaust, where millions of jews were killed. The preaching and extreme protesting was a really contemporary thing that made no sense for Kitty, who has just awoken from the 1940s, to suddenly be doing. I also found Kitty really irritating when she was making that preachy speech and protest to dismiss people for simply worshipping Anne Frank through naming buildings and everything after her, as that's not what Anne wanted, but rather to save children and families, when nobody was claiming to worship her, they were simply naming these places after her to create a legacy for her. It was also stupid the way she said that's not the message Anne was sending in her diary, as Anne never intended to send any message in her diary, given it was private. I enjoyed the initial focus on Anne Frank's story and WW2, and the concept of her imaginary friend awakening in present day after over 70 years and finding out about Anne Frank's legacy seemed like an interesting one, but it would've been so much better if they hadn't made the Kitty character so irritating, preachy and unlikable, as well as if they hadn't included this horrible "bad boy" guy as a love interest who actually "LOVES" her too, and of course the whole contemporary social justice themes of preachiness and protesting and the issue with the refugees.

A new angle on the famous story with beautiful animation and spirit. But the movie turns into preaching for the last 20 minutes comparing the holocaust to the immigration crisis in Europe, both humanitarian crisis, but completely different in nature and scale.

I almost cried as I watched this brilliant movie. What a beautiful way to show what Anne Frank and her diary "Kitty" mean for the young people of today.

In 2008, director Ari Forman gave us Waltz With Bashir, an emotional attempt to settle accounts with his own past, when as a teenage soldier he participated in the most violent event of the war between Palestine and Israel. 13 years later, the director's new project hits the theatres, this time focusing on Anne Frank and the diary she wrote while hiding from the Nazis. With this new film, Ari Forman proves that even the animation aiming at families may be as powerful as other classic representatives of the genre. The story divides into two layers: the first one focuses on Anne Frank, giving the audience the account of the uncertainty and tragedies her and her family went through, with the deportation to the death camp as its culmination. The second layer concerns Anne's imaginary friend Kitty. As a result of unexplained phenomenon, Kitty awakens from the diary. Not knowing what happened to Anne, she tries to find her by all cost. Ari Folman seems to be an admirer of animation. He knows how to use the medium so that his movies work in the emotional sphere. Despite some graphic scenes, Waltz With Bashir had many sequences that supplied the story with more poetical scent. Where Is Anne Frank works to some extent in a similar way. However, we never see violence directly. It's toned down, replaced by the imagery resembling the unforgettable animated sequence from Alan Parker's The Wall. When it comes to the characters themselves, not only do they have eye-candy designes, but also their animation is detailed and fluent. However, the filmmakers never forget during the whole runtime that presentation is just a medium and it's the characters that engage the audience into the story. Even though there is a whole variety of characters in the movie, each of them is properly developed. I especially liked Kitty, as her determination in the investigation makes the story truly engaging and this is the part, where the true message of the story shines out. As the movie goes on, Folman attempts to coin the message about fighting with racial prejudice both in terms of Jews during World War II and the refugees in modern times. Though initially I had problems with seeing the consistency, the director manages to acheive it at the end of the movie. All sorts of anti-prejudice media, from books to movies, will always be of great importance. Where Is Anne Frank may be a good subject for conversation between children and their parents. Both groups may take an important lesson of tolerance out of it. In modern times, this is why such stories are of great value. Let me finish by quoting the dialogue I remembered from the movie the most. "Anne: Why do people hate us? Kitty: Because they always need some scapegoat."

It is a problem with historic-point-cinema - hard to do it right. Three ways to do of 1) make parody (hi to genius Charlie Chaplin); 2) documentary (Barefoot Gen for example); 3) near or really fantasy tale (like Handmaid's) I guess this animation worked in the third way mixed with kinda.. alternate history, but in that case here is not enough.. well.. alternate and fantasy? They could add magic spear, unicorns, do Frank as a boy, aliens, heck, anything to show different story or different perspective of alternative. And since it have not, animation looks raw if not to say more. Well, I might be wrong, but.. something just fishy.