Today I would like to talk to you about an animated movie that I like very much, Spirited Away. You won't be unfamiliar with the name, because the film was released in 2001 and grossed $300 million at the global box office, yes, it's $. It is also the highest-grossing animated film in the history of Japanese anime.
In addition to the terrible high box office, what is even more terrifying is its reputation, which is as high as a staggering 9.4 points on the Douban score. This 2001 film is still able to maintain such a high score after so many years, which is very rare.
"Spirited Away" won the Golden Bear Award at the 52nd Berlin Film Festival and the 75th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the same time, and the two most gold-bearing film festivals in the world awarded their highest honorary awards to Spirited Away, which is enough to show how good it really is.
Okay, let's come back and talk about the movie. The plot of the story is roughly as follows: the little girl Chihiro moved from the city to the countryside with her parents due to her parents' work transfer, but what she did not expect was that an accident occurred on the way. They enter a strange world controlled by a witch called the soup house owner. Those who do not work there will be turned into animals. Chihiro's parents turned into pigs because of gluttony, and in order to save her parents, Chihiro met a boy named Hakuryu in the process of saving. The boy named Bai Long was cold in appearance but very intelligent. After experiencing many things with Hakuryu, Chihiro finally rescues her parents and saves Hakuryu at the same time. The details of the story will not be elaborated one by one, like friends I recommend to watch the full version of the movie, so that you can more deeply feel the ideas and inspiration that this movie brings to you.
Let's talk about my intuitive feelings about this movie. Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" entertains the audience at the same time, but also satirizes some phenomena in society. Chihiro's parents turned into pigs because of gluttony, interpreting the greed of human nature, as long as it is a good thing, how much to take will not feel too much. Chihiro did not eat food, in contrast to her parents. It depicts the innocence of the child's world and satirizes the greed and deceit of adults in real life.
When Chihiro works in the soup house, she vividly shows the human desires, jealousy, and exclusion of the bottom and production classes of society, and also exposes that modern society is a service-oriented society that meets human needs and desires through trading services. In the soup house, Grandma Tang often said that she hated lazy people, and people who did not work would be turned into animals. In life, work is not only to earn money to support the family, but also to give yourself a reason to act, otherwise laziness will make people more decadent and more disgusted with the world.
And through the faceless man to show the real world is not good at communicating with people, or even hate to communicate with humans. It's a stark contrast to today's social ceiling.
The river god is also written in the film. It was dirty, covered in garbage, and was known as the god of decay. This series of depictions exposes the destruction of the natural environment by human beings and calls on people to protect the environment. The destruction of mankind is borne by mankind itself.
In the end, Chihiro returns to human society, but not because she has completely defeated the evil forces, but because she has excavated the vitality she contains.
Well, today I will talk to you here, like friends remember to like to share, pay attention. Thank you for your support!
Video link address: Spirited Away - Anime MV