Ishida’s accusations raise important questions about bullying. Kawai breaks down crying in class, leading Ishida’s classmates to dislike him. He also calls out Ueno and Kawai: the goodie-goodie girl and friend/follower of Ueno, of bad-mouthing Nishimiya. Ishida seeks to defend himself, stating his friend Shimada bullied with him, as if that excuses his actions. Ishida’s friends turn on him, claiming they told him what he was doing was wrong, when in fact they watched everything happen - bystanders. Nishimiya apologizes to him, believing she has done something to wrong him and make him bully her.įinally, school faculty steps in and seeks to find who has been bullying her. After being talked to in the faculty office, Ishida is met by Nishimiya as he walks home. This montage concludes with Ishida ripping Nishimiya’s hearing aids from her ears, causing her to bleed and gaining the concerns of those who watch her get bullied. We witness yet another montage of Ishida, this time he is bullying Nishimiya in various fashions like taking her hearing aids, screaming at her in class, etc. If it wasn’t bad enough for Nishimiya to be bullied the way she had thus far, things get worse when Ueno and Ishida discover she has hearing aids. This is also significant because we witness bystanders, but we’ll get to that. But even though they know it’s wrong, they do not stop Ishida. She has dirt thrown in her face, she is made fun of for her fashion sense, and the one person who agrees to learn sign language, Sahara, transfers to another school - which she again is bullied for by Ishida who writes on the board, “Congrats, Nishimiya, you made Sahara disappear.” While writing on the board, Ishida’s friends tell him, “You shouldn’t do that”, “That’s too much”, and “You’re such a jerk,” all while wearing a smile on their faces. There’s no shortage of adversity for young Nishimiya. I don’t plan to summarize every section of the entire film, but this scene is significant in the way it sets up Ishida’s downfall. This montage ends with Ishida taking a slow stroll through the hall among students who gaze at him. They’re simply trying to have as much fun as they can. The movie truly begins as we shift to a montage of a preadolescent Ishida bonding with his friends playing video games, fooling around in class, gaining the attention of girls, behaving like.kids. Again, he crosses another day off his calendar, which is labeled, “Final Day.” He leans over the railing, and the next thing we know he is standing on it ready to fall off until a nearby firework stops him. The central part of this sequence is Ishida walking to a bridge as we witness him executing the aforementioned actions. We witness a sequence of teenage Ishida getting his affairs in order before he attempts to commit suicide ripping out the rest of his calendar, signaling it is time to quit his part-time job, withdrawing his entire bank account, and leaving it for his mother. We open with a teaser of Shoya Ishida, our protagonist…sort of. Ishida’s journey is a tale of bullying, mental health, friendship, and redemption. While the premise of the movie revolves around teenage Ishida, who attempts to make amends with a deaf girl he bullied in the 6th grade the true story revolves around his relationships with the people around him. It was written by Reiko Yoshida, and directed by Naoko Yamada. A Silent Voice is an animated Japanese film released in 2017.
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