The first time I watched Spirited Away was in 2002, when I was still in junior high school, and over the past decade, I've seen the film many times: Chinese, Japanese, english, and every time I watched it, I was moved differently, and I grew up in this movie-watching experience again and again.
I can't remember how I felt when I first watched this film, but it's safe to say that it wasn't until I finally stepped into the adult world and had to face the choices of adults that I really understood what Miyazaki wanted to convey through this film.
There are no Disney-style absolute good guys and bad guys in Miyazaki's world, and it seems to be a metaphor for the real world.
Isn't chihiro reluctantly allowed to be brought into this world of gods by her parents like the adult society that young people have to face gradually? In this world, everyone must find their own value and place through work; everyone gradually becomes snobbish and worldly, living to fill their desires.
The faceless man who appears in the film, I like it, because I feel that he is very close to me, although I still don't know where she came from.
In fact, the faceless man likes Chihiro very much, he has been silently helping her in the hidden world, he is a guy who is not noticed. His life is also very monotonous, but he stands on the bridge every day and watches the flow of people in front of him.
One day, when Chihiro crossed the bridge, the faceless man stood on the edge of the bridge, and this ghostly face showed a shallow smile on the mask that had always been expressionless. After that, he began to secretly pay attention to her.
This faceless monster, this ghost, just floating. Wherever Chihiro goes, it floats.
He always kept a certain distance from her and didn't speak, just was there to look at her quietly. It was raining, and everyone else was back in the house, while he was still standing in the courtyard, secretly staring at her who was wiping the floor.
By chance, Chihiro finds him standing in the rain. She let him in for shelter from the rain. He didn't move, he didn't make a sound. In fact, at that time, his heart was beating violently. He wanted to go over and stand with her, but he was inexplicably timid. Eventually, she said, "I'm not going to close the door." Then he left with a bucket of water. Only then did he shyly poke his head into the door, look at her back, and whisper happily.
When Chihiro washed the big bath, the faceless monster still followed. It kept a short distance and looked at Chihiro. It finally walked up and timidly handed over a sign of Chihiro's coveted hot potion—it could help her lighten a lot of her workload. Chihiro was so surprised that she refused to accept it. The Faceless Monster was a little anxious, and even more forcefully shoved the hot potion brand into Chihiro's hand. I suddenly remembered that a little boy secretly brought an apple from home to a girl who qingmei Bamboo Horse secretly liked, and wanted to give it to the little girl at the end of class.
Later, the faceless man seduced and devoured a frog with gold turned from mud. As a result, the faceless man used the gold that changed out of the oil house in exchange for the fanatical pursuit and favor of everyone in the oil house, including the most awesome Tang Mother-in-law, and everyone loved the terrible, ugly faceless man incomparably, because he had gold!!
He greedily devoured endless delicacies, he spoke domineering commands in the tone of that frog, and he won unparalleled honor and power, even love!! But the Faceless Man was still angry, and he ate a few stupid bathers who didn't know the times, because he didn't care about these stupid pursuits, he only cared about one person, so Grandma Tang brought Chihiro to him.
And it couldn't say anything, only held its breath, and whispered a simple sentence: "My gold, only for Chihiro." ”
The gold was enough to get people outside to kneel for him. But Chihiro didn't do this, Chihiro said, I want you must not be able to give, where do you come from? You'd better hurry back to where you came from, you have parents too, right? Where is your home? These few words poked at the faceless man's death hole, and he retracted the mask back into his ugly and huge stomach, constantly muttering to himself, I am so lonely. The crazy faceless male monster finally revealed the fragility of his heart.
Later, Chihiro could not be found, and the faceless monster this "rich man" was furious and made a mess here, and even Grandma Tang could not coax her. As soon as Chihiro entered, the faceless monster obediently found a plate of food that was still complete in its own mess, and timidly handed it over, saying, "You eat, this is delicious." ”
At Grandma Qian's house, he finally saw his love enemy. They are too far apart. How can a monster without even a face compare itself to a noble dragon? The kind money mother-in-law played a round for him. He also chose to stay. The faceless man did not dare to compete with the white dragon. He was just the joy in Chihiro's eyes when he faced the White Dragon.
This joy makes him choose to give up, so that the two people who love each other have a beautiful and harmonious ending. That's what Chihiro wants and he can give...
Unfortunately, love is not something that can be achieved by hard work. The faceless man may be a cute crush, but definitely not a successful suitor. In his concept of love, he only knows to pay for love, but will pay all in the wrong place, just like someone on the Internet said, "I like apples but you gave me a cart of pears, and then you said that you were touched by yourself, asked me why I was not moved, I was speechless." "Perhaps, in the world of love, the faceless man also represents the lost.
Of course, the ending is still good, Chihiro gave him the pill of Hebo, he began to vomit, spit out all vanity, spit out all desires, and finally, found his own home in Grandma Qian, and obtained a real salvation from the soul, from a man-eating monster to an assistant to Grandma Qian. Although he once did something wrong because of the cruel rejection of the people he cared about.
Many people are like this, waiting for chihiro themselves. But who is Chihiro, who is Chihiro, who can really redeem himself in this materialistic world?