My wife made the suggestion. The story was adapted from the novel The Borrowers by Mary Norton. The director was Hiromasa Yonebayashi (米林宏昌), supposedly under the supervision of Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿).
The plot was simple, and I considered there could be many areas better explored in the story. For example, how about using a tiny jar - from that miniature kitchen - of honey rather than a sugar cube as the parting gift ? (I suppose I cannot blame Hiromasa or Hayao; they just followed the original story of Mary Norton.)
Nonetheless, the film was entirely enjoyable. There was no explosion or extra-terrestrial alien. Nothing was exciting - just a somewhat plain story slowly unfolds itself. All emotions were contained. There was also not much hidden meaning or great lesson to learn. In that 90 minutes, we had a sick boy making friend with the little Arrietty. That's all.
And, simple is beauty.
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