Spirited+Away

Spirited Away Movie Review​​ ​ Studio: Studio Ghilbi Director: Hayao Miyazaki Main Character: Chihiro (Sen) 2nd main Character: Haku Actor: -Japanese Drawings- Length: 2 hours 5 mins Reviewer: Tyler Polonio

Synopsis: In the movie Spirited Away there is a girl named Chihiro who, with her parents, is moving to a new home. When the parents are driving to the new home they accidentaly take a wrong turn that leads to a long wooden path. After traveling down the road by car, to the families suprise, they have to abruptly stop because there is an odd building in the way. They get out of the car to investigate and they find that there is actually a long tunnel. Their curiosity takes place and they decide to follow the tunnel. When they come out, they find huge plains and very old buildings. Following a tasty smell they find themselves inside the abandoned city at an empty food kiosk with steaming hot food. The parents indulge themselves but Chihiro wanders around until she finds a bath house with a boy standing in front of it. Not to ruin any further suprises, find out what happens to Chihiro as night falls in ..... the Spirit World?

Message:"All you humans ever do is mess everything up!" For example, in the movie there is a high god- the River Spirit. But he diguises himself as a disgusting monster. But why would he do that? Well I think Hayao Miyazaki was trying to say that he collected all of that "disgustingness" from the trash humans threw away. Also, why would gods want to go to a bath house? Probably to releive theselves of the troubles humans created. I think through out the movie Hayao was trying to show that humans are the ones putting bad ideas and principles into an otherwise perfect society.

Opinion: In my opinion I think that this movie was the best of all time. The storyline was amazing and so were the drawings. The movie isn't very common in America because it's Japanese but i think it should be. Although it was a little strange its was very intriguing.