4/22/03 11:30 am - Oh, wow.   Lisa and I finally got around to seeing Spirited Away last night. I think I'd...not so much avoided this, but avoided going too far out of my way to see it, because I found Mononoke to be overhyped, underdone, and while not a -bad- movie, per se, to not be an amazingly good one, either, or even close. This...isn't anywhere near overhyped; in fact, even with the Oscar, I'd say it's underhyped; it's simply amazing, on almost every level. Character development, myth, plot, wonder, and catharsis. And while, like every Miazaki film, it has an environmental subplot, in this film, it remains a -subplot-, rather than a "message" pounded into the ground until it bleeds, and is very well handled on a number of layers. Now I just want to see it in Japanese. |
4/22/03 09:49 am (UTC) -
sdelmonte
Curious, though, as to whether you saw the Gaiman-scripted version of the subtitled. I've been told that the subtitled version is better.
4/22/03 11:36 am (UTC) -
mneme
4/22/03 02:31 pm (UTC) -
agrumer
I don't recall an environmental subplot in Porco Rosso (which I considered Miyazaki's best film till Spirited Away came along), and there's barely one in Kiki's Delivery Service. I don't really recall one in Laputa, Castle in the Sky either.