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Jul. 30th, 2011 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaSPIRITED AWAY/SEN TO CHIHIRO
Genre: Kids and Family
How much seen: the whole thing
What it's about: I'm going to cheat here, because all attempts on my part lead to flailing. From Anime News Network: "On their way to their new home, a young girl, Chihiro, and her parents stumble into what appears to be an abandoned theme park. But all is not as it seems, as the theme park is a bath-house for the spirits, and not a place where humans are welcome. Chihiro must fend for herself and rescue her parents, as they have been turned to pigs as punishment for eating the food meant for the gods."
I first saw this in dub, and it remains one of the few exceptions where I love English dub and Japanese-with-subtitles pretty much equally. As you might guess, this isn't a movie I can be really objective about: it's one of my go-to comfort movies. If I'm tying myself in mental knots, I can toss this into the DVD player, and watch a ten-year-old girl face down her own fears, free a dragon (and her parents), and mature from sulky brat to determined heroine. There's a reason I chose her as my icon for this Blogathon.
Maybe it's just that it taps into something in my subconscious. But it's got a mythic world (that's heavily Japanese, and thus not as Western-fairytale-predictable to me), well-developed minor characters, a heroine who genuinely matures, and a hero who's, well, a dragon. :-)
Overall opinion: Um, yeah, see above. Not objective at all. :hearts:
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Kay has returned, and is taunting her dog with his ball. He seems to be enjoying it, even if it mostly involves running around her in small circles.
Genre: Kids and Family
How much seen: the whole thing
What it's about: I'm going to cheat here, because all attempts on my part lead to flailing. From Anime News Network: "On their way to their new home, a young girl, Chihiro, and her parents stumble into what appears to be an abandoned theme park. But all is not as it seems, as the theme park is a bath-house for the spirits, and not a place where humans are welcome. Chihiro must fend for herself and rescue her parents, as they have been turned to pigs as punishment for eating the food meant for the gods."
I first saw this in dub, and it remains one of the few exceptions where I love English dub and Japanese-with-subtitles pretty much equally. As you might guess, this isn't a movie I can be really objective about: it's one of my go-to comfort movies. If I'm tying myself in mental knots, I can toss this into the DVD player, and watch a ten-year-old girl face down her own fears, free a dragon (and her parents), and mature from sulky brat to determined heroine. There's a reason I chose her as my icon for this Blogathon.
Maybe it's just that it taps into something in my subconscious. But it's got a mythic world (that's heavily Japanese, and thus not as Western-fairytale-predictable to me), well-developed minor characters, a heroine who genuinely matures, and a hero who's, well, a dragon. :-)
Overall opinion: Um, yeah, see above. Not objective at all. :hearts:
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Kay has returned, and is taunting her dog with his ball. He seems to be enjoying it, even if it mostly involves running around her in small circles.