On June the 14th 2017, I watched a movie called “A Monster Calls”. This is a dark fantasy drama of a boy, who is good at art but has developed a distorted character during his raise. He meets a huge “monster” of European Yew tree and the story breaks out. This is not a story of “superhero”. The boy is a natural young boy with almost no supernatural power. There is no miracle healing, and the boy finally accepts his own destiny. This is very different from all the other stories of superheroes, or a Japanese animation movie “Your Name（君の名は）”. The “superhero” movies tend to hide something from sight with a coverhide of the real logics underlie. Basically there is no absolute good or bad, and the personalities of the characters appear in the realistic stories are actually complicated, beyond the simplicity of the theme in “superhero” stories. There is no relief, but only acceptance. The Yew Tree that tolerated thousands of years of rain and wind just show the boy the exit of his tragedy. This story works as a cure of people who are tired of all the unnatural superheroic stories. The original novel received a Carnegie Medal and a Kate Greenaway Medal, which are famous medals for English novels for young.
