The story of this film is adapted from the serial manga and tells the story of Chihiro, a woman who used to work in a custom shop and now works at a bento shop by the sea. There are all kinds of different people around her, but she can always comfort them and thus influence their life stories.
Have you seen Yu Aoi's "Million Dollars and the Bitter Worm Girl"? The exact same story, but the heroine's journey is different. Yu Aoi was a little younger at the time, and the scenery of that movie was more beautiful.
Pampered and unfazed, free to respond to the ridicule of those around her, and not shy away from her special professional experience, Miss Chihiro is like an angel with a blazing light, shining on everyone around her who is not going well, and at the same time a lonely passerby like a ghost, it is the best gift to be lucky enough to meet her.
The first shot is the heroine wearing white pants kneeling on the ground to pet a stray cat. Yes, some of us humans will kneel on the ground and pet stray cats, and some of us humans will wear white pants, but we will not wear white pants and kneel on the ground to pet stray cats. In Chihiro's eyes, white does not represent purity, nor does it hide her experience of working in a custom shop, all she thinks about is to communicate with the little life in front of her. This girl is also portrayed too beautifully, a little beyond reality.
Perhaps you may think that this is just a story of a prostitute turned saint, deliberately emphasizing how beautiful and pure a soul a woman with a "dirty" body has inside, so it is also a vulgarity to forcibly mold a sex worker into an angel.
The intermission of life, the self-reconstruction of a tired girl. The film establishes seven character relationships, from a distance, it is a female friendly stratosphere in a small harbor town, and up close it is actually the family and family that Chihiro chose and rebuilt for herself, where there are fathers, mothers, friends, younger siblings, and even boyfriends who "don't need to be in love", which has become the biggest advantage of the whole film, that is, an ecosystem that emphasizes women's self-feelings built completely from a female perspective.
From a custom shop to a goldfish shop, to a bento shop to a dairy farm. Even if she is lonely, she has sent a lot of warmth to others, such as a small town from a single-parent family, a female middle school student from a repressive family, a homeless "master", a female middle school student who loves to read comics with her master, and a blind bento shop lady. It really responds: people who care especially about others are because they are extremely lonely inside.
Loneliness is a person's carnival, she is obviously lonely, but the heroine's eyes flashed with a charming light that illuminated other lonely people.