Comments on: Spirited Away: Eat to Survive, Learn to Live

By: Panther

Panther — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:26:34 +0000

Great movie indeed, this. I loved the soundtrack.

By: Jacob (New Geek Philosopher)

Jacob (New Geek Philosopher) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:56:24 +0000

My first memory of this film was that I rented it and my brother got up early in the morning and watched it without me, the bastard! Then I saw it in its entirety later on, and loved it.

By: Makoto

Makoto — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:27:30 +0000

Didn’t this come out years ago 0.o? It was showing on my high school’s anime week thingy years ago too:o
Didn’t really get to watch it all(missed some of the middle bits)…I forgot why though..some distraction come up. I did remember getting bored from watching naruto movie no(who cares)
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By: blissmo

blissmo — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:41:12 +0000

@jitensha: It was last semester for the last day of school. Kinda like a party, but we had no choice but to watch it or do homework lols

@Martin: I appreciate your long comment! They’re so rare these slacking days lols. At first, I thought Spirited Away was just a childish show with no particular meaning as well, and No Face was sort of random, but then I thought about it and wondered a bit more, you know, if there was any real significance in adding that sort of character in besides killing time, and then I found it lols. I haven’t seen Totoro yet, but I heard it was just cute things being done by cute things, so it’s not a show I’ll be looking forward to when watching it. I didn’t notice anything about Haku simply because I didn’t really like him lols. And you really should re-watch this lols

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:54:58 +0000

I’ve always found this movie to be entertaining (the bodyless heads amused me no end) but always thought of it as a movie intended for younger viewers – I appreciate its beauty and innocence but never really thought of it as being one of his best. I know his eco-fable theme has been done repeatedly but Spirited Away felt a bit lacking in anything solid, or any complex storytelling. But then, it does have a simpler, fairytale feel to it than anything he’s done before, apart from Totoro. And it is still the prettiest film he’s done.

After reading this though, some aspects that I thought were too random or too steeped in Japanese tradition for ignorant Westerners like me to appreciate make a bit more sense now. I’ll bear this post in mind when I rewatch it because things like No-Face baffled me a bit. Did anyone else interpret Haku’s true nature as a jibe aimed at industrialising the countryside or similar? I felt quite a wave of sadness when his background was explained, but it was a nice way to end things.

Damn, I really do need to rewatch this! A great post. ^_^

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By: jitensha

jitensha — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:46:57 +0000

Your teacher made you watch it?
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By: blissmo

blissmo — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:52:11 +0000

@jitensha: Haha, I know I just finished since my teacher made us, but I really liked it! Despite it being rather of a family thing etc, it was just too cute.

@bateszi: I wouldn’t say it’s my favourite lols, and it was draggy kinda, but yes, I thought it was still nice and sweet, and it made me feel at peace. My favourite scene would be all the scenes involving the fat mouse XD

By: bateszi

bateszi — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:57:10 +0000

This is a really nice review, blissmo. I wonder, what did you make of the "train scene" with No-Face? It's my favourite part of the movie. bateszis last blog post..You call yourself human?

By: jitensha

jitensha — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:29:55 +0000

just to share something? — The dragon’s movement were patterned from an eel (Miyazaki did)

By the way blissmo, just finished watching it? I just don’t get why its ratings are so high. I already watched it and I didn’t appreciated it. I don’t know whats with me but I just didn’t like… But it’s really weird because many people liked it… o_O Oh man, I don’t know why …
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By: Author

Author — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:24:09 +0000

I said it before, but Miyazaki is at his strongest when he stops hating and bashing (for example, all things military). Remove the hate and he blossoms.