You truly are Spirited Away!

Spirited Away is a film that changed the animation genre around. This is one of the four main landmarks of animation. The others being Toy Story, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs and The Lion King. Spirited Away went to another level by presenting us such a bizarre world like no other animated film has ever done before. Everything about this film was weird because it was, as I said, something new. I think the main thing I loved about this one was that despite how odd it is, it is a film to expand your imagination. This is better when you are a kid but you can do it if you're a teenager or adult.


Spirited Away tells the story of a 10-year-old girl called Chihiro. The opening scene is Chihiro and her parents driving to a new home in a new town. On their travels, they come across the entrance to the spirit world. Her personality changes from the beginning right until the end. At first she was a whiny and self-centred child and then becomes a hard-working, responsible and optimistic young girl who has learned to care for others. During her time in the spirit world, she is renamed "Sen" courtesy of Yubaba who is the owner of the bathhouse. Chihiro makes friends with a young boy called Haku. Haku is a dragon in the appearance of a boy who helps Chihiro after her parents are transformed into pigs when they ate all that food. He works as Yubaba's direct subordinate. She treats him like a slave more than someone who does favours for her. Yubaba is the adversary of the film. She is an old witch who supervises the bathhouse. She signs Chihiro into a contract and renames her as "Sen" in order to hold power over her for the duration of the contract. She has a giant baby called Boh who is twice her size.


Miyazaki goes really odd in this film. Things like a big baby who is bigger than humans who are years older than him, an old man with six arms like a spider, a devouring, black spirit known as No-Face, a boy who can transform into a dragon amongst others. Miyazaki does use the same kind of animation in every film he has done and he always has different worlds to wow the audience which is what I really admire about him the most. He is like Quentin Tarantino in cases of writing scripts. He thinks of his own stories and writes them so perfectly! They both make them quite cool scripts as well with a cool style to it. I don't know how to explain this with Spirited Away but it just makes me think that.


Overall, Spirited Away is a landmark of the animation genre that has granted its firmly sealed place as one of the best and one of my favourite animated films of all time.

9/10