#140RVW
Ever feel dumb watching a movie that everyone else loves, knowing there’s more going on than you’re getting? Sometimes it’s just a cigar…
今まであなたが取得しているよりも多くのそこが起こっているのを知って、誰もが愛している映画を見てダム感じる？時にはそれだけで葉巻だ…
#140RVW, take 2
Any chance we could get Miyazaki-san to just animate backgrounds & leave the characters to someone else? His work is gorgeous but so weird.
万が一私達はちょうど背景をアニメーション＆他の誰かに文字を残して宮崎さん得ることができる？彼の作品は、豪華なしかしとても奇妙です。
What’s more:
This is the weirdest movie I think I have ever seen, and it’s not like there aren’t a lot of films that have had that distinction before now.
I’m not going to make any friends with this review, but I didn’t really take to Spirited Away. It is Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece, and he is a truly gifted filmmaker, and everyone loves it, and it’s one of the best animated movies ever. Yeah, I get it. But I didn’t like it. Because I don’t like the style of his animated characters. I just don’t. I’ve tried, I really have. But they are ridiculous looking, and the fact that his backgrounds and landscapes and every other element of his films looks so great just makes the characters look more out of place to me.
This movie was aimed at kids the age of the protagonist (10 years old). Maybe I would have enjoyed it more then. My daughter certainly enjoyed it. Which is funny, because I would have sworn this was nightmare material. I’m not sure I’m going to avoid nightmares…
The biggest problem I had with Spirited Away was that I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was missing a whole lot of what was happening. It seemed that what was happening on screen was total madness, but that if I understood the Japanese culture better that there were all sorts of references to legends and things that would have made the whole thing make a lot more sense. It’s sort of like trying to judge fine cuisine when you don’t know anything about it; you may not enjoy what you’re eating but you somehow feel bad that you don’t – you don’t really have the vocabulary to express why.
You know what, though? That’s not my problem. These are movies, not fine art. And it wouldn’t matter if they were fine art. It’s weird, it looks like a really gorgeous world populated by nightmares and truly ugly things. The whole thing looks like William Burroughs went to art school.
But hey, the music was great and the attention to detail was remarkable. I’m going to keep watching Miyazaki-san, because he’s a genius and I love being challenged by his stuff…
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Trailer:
Bechdel Test:
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| Main Cast | Daveigh Chase Chihiro (voice: English version), Suzanne Pleshette Yubaba/Zeniba (voice: English version), Miyu Irino Haku (voice: Japanese version), Susan Egan Lin (voice: English version) |
| Rating | PG |
| Release Date | Fri 28 Mar 2003 UTC |
| Director | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Genres | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy |
| Plot | In the middle of her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters; where humans are changed into animals; and a bathhouse for these creatures. |
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| Runtime | 125 |
| Tagline | (The tunnel led Chihiro to a mysterious town…) |
| Writers | Hayao Miyazaki (written by) |
| Year | 2001 |