I just finished watching Spirited Away, must be my ninth or tenth time this year. I fell in love with that film the first time I saw it, and it still reaches out to that one spot in my heart where hope still resides. I don't want to spoil anything about the plot for those who haven't seen it yet, but how the movie makes me feel, how it reminds me that my life is pretty good, how it affects the way I see things, I can easily discuss.
There's a lot of energy in the subtext of this film, but subtext is something that can't really be described. It's there, and many people pick it up without knowing they're doing it. Since it's too hard to put what subtext is to words, I won't try. The energy drives the whole experience very well, hinting at the deeper, more raw emotion that lays hidden beneath the characters seemingly normal personalities. After getting in touch with that emotion, which is subtle at first, a person can easily lose themself in Spirited Away. My siter even said, after she watched the film; "It's easy to forget you're watching a movie, you could get lost in it." Which is how I get each and every time I watch. No better review have I seen or heard that those words. The emotion is still noticable without reading the subtext, but it's kind of deceptive in that it leads you one way, when the characters are going another. I'll leave that speak for itself.
You'll notice one of my featured quiz results shows Haku, from Spirited Away, I take great pride in that result for personal reasons that I won't bore anyone with here right now, though I'm not hard to pursuade to talk about it.
Oddly, the film quiets the unrest in my mind, it has a calming effect on me that's actually quite pleasant. A state of distemper is easily subdued when watching Spirited Away, at least for me anyway. Someone tell my family that so they'll know how to handle me when I get frustrated by something. There are a lot of subtleties to the film that, to put it the only way I can, push the right buttons of mine, in the right order. Call it the password code key to my mental state, and personal inner workings. While not granting full access on it's own, it does open me up a bit, well, more than a bit, but I won't say how much *^_^*
To wrap this up into a coherent blog burrito of refried anime goodness, Sometimes what you least expect from anime is what you get, and though I know the stories are usually deep, I didn't really expect to find myself, no pun intended, spirited away by this one. The realms of imagination have been opened up, and I'm rather enjoying my visit there.
Anime Dreams.
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