Advice when you get married: listen to your wife, she’s probably right. And I don’t mean that sarcastically.

That’s a valid point about the literal presence of music in the movie. I was also half-expecting the shamisen to be a key player in more places. And while this isn’t a rebuttal or a consolation for that disappointment, here’s a challenge I have for you: think about the musicality of the movie as a whole. Imagine Kubo…

Okay, let’s turn this idea on its head because you’re really close to hitting home here. What if everything leading up to the very end of the movie was the “lie” and the grandfather you saw at the end was the villain in his true form? What if he actually was a great guy before his memory went away, and Kubo just never…

Stories can be inconsistent, ambiguous, and erroneous, but there are always truths to be found within. Reflect on the narrative as if you were Kubo. Imagine why you’d resent a demented grandparent who remembered next to nothing about your mother and absolutely nothing about your father - both deceased - and then…