“Belle” is the latest movie produced by Mamoru Hosoda who is one of the most famous Japanese movie directors. In this movie, Suzu who cannot sing a song after her mother died meets mysterious existence called Ryu in a virtual world.

This movie’s animation is made by both handwriting and 3D. A large-scale story played in a virtual world is realized by overwhelming visual and music. In previous movies produced by Mamoru Hosoda, it was described positively that the Internet changes people’s lives. However, in this movie, there is an emotional conflict in the process that a girl named Suzu grow in the present that people use the Internet naturally every day.

I think one of the greatest points in this movie is that it covers not only the Internet’s good points but also its problems in the globalized world. For example, problems of SNS users’ behavior or slanderous comments in the Internet are also covered in the way unique to movies. Therefore, we can know how dangerous the Internet is if we use it without correct knowledge. Moreover, this movie gives us opportunities to think about the Internet’s development because it predicts what problems a virtual world can cause.