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Tuesday, March 23, 2004


Spirited Away


I just watched this wicked awesome anime movie named Spirited Away.
The story is about a spoiled, edgy 10-year-old named Chihiro, moving to a new town with her parents. One wrong turn in the woods, however, and their boring suburban life takes a turn for the surreal. They find themselves in an eerily abandoned amusement park, with faded stalls and empty thoroughfares... but plates and plates of hot food sitting unattended. Mom and Dad, immediately begin scarfing down, but Chihiro demurs and goes wandering off alone. The amusement park serves as the home for a plethora of spirits, monsters and shapeshifters -- a fantasy world hidden just out of sight. Chihiro soon finds herself lost and alone, her parents gone and nothing but her wits to depend upon. With the setup in place, Miyazaki unleashes the full force of his imagination with a dizzying array of bizarre creatures and astounding locales. The centerpiece is a huge bathhouse, run by a bobble-headed witch named Yubaba, who claims Chihiro's name in exchange for giving her a job as a serving girl. Her minions include a gaggle of anthropomorphic toads, a friendly boy, who may be more than he seems, and a spider-limbed engineer with a gruff-but-kind heart. As Chihiro weaves her way through these spirit folk, she learns to rely on herself, to trust her instincts and to let her heart show her the way.


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