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This "Howl's Moving Castle" is a bit like the "Castle in the Sky", both of which are mobile castles in the sky. I think it has at least two connotations: freedom and autonomy and magical romance. To take today's reality as an analogy, it is a bit like a villa, and it is a unique one for a mountain lake. Further, it resembles an island kingdom.

Castle in the Sky has the entity of a city, while Moving Castle is more of a personal realm. The magic that sets the Moving Castle apart from the Castle in the Sky is that it has a magical door. Opening the doors of the blue-green-red-black traps will lead to different worlds, which is the most interesting part of the mobile castle. Open the Blue Gate, enter the harbor and the town, the Sophie hat shop in the town, this is the normal and happy appearance; Open the green door, enter the castle, and return to the door of the body and mind; Open the red door and enter the colorful garden. The Lake of Stars is beautiful! That is the imaginary peach blossom paradise; Open the Black Gate, and you will enter the icy world of frost and snow, the war channel. Different doors enter different worlds, on the one hand, to satisfy the needs of curiosity and imagination, and on the other hand, it is also a corresponding allegorical vigilance. It's a bit like the Buddhist concept of self-cultivation and good deeds, and the reincarnation of good retribution in the next life, on the contrary, if you do a lot of evil, you will go to hell, and the moving castle is more inclined to imagine magic.

Heroes save beauty

The film is mainly about a love story. Sophie, a girl from a small town, inherited her father's hat shop and knitted all kinds of hats at home quietly. This is an ordinary town, but under the ordinary and lively, there is hidden magic, and war is the background. Sophie is chased by monsters and happens to meet Howl, the owner of the moving castle, and the scene where the hero saves the beauty is not new, but once it appears, it is still romantic and beautiful. The teenage Sophie falls in love with the handsome Hal. Probably out of jealousy, she was tricked by a witch of the wilderness and turned Sophie into an old woman. Sophie, who has become an old woman, decides to run away from home and live in an unknown and distant land out of shyness. On the way, the lonely and helpless Sophie meets the scarecrow, who leads her to Howl's moving castle and stays to become the castle's cleaning lady.

Over time, Sophie became good friends with the castle's children, Maluk and Flame Demon Cassifah, and lived together as a family.

Hal is not only the owner of the castle, he has magical magic, he has the heart to save mankind to fight and stop the war, every travel "mission" will consume a lot of energy, and then fly back to the castle tiredly, the castle is a harbor of rest, is a gas station, and Sophie is the steward of this harbor gas station. The two fell in love with each other, and after the baptism of time and demons, in the end, a lover held hands and finally became a family.

Hand in hand

There may be my imagination in this, and I prefer this film to be fully developed based on it to make the love story more pure.

The setting that turns Sophie into an old woman seems to be a test of love, or an interpretation of aesthetics. When Sophie walks into the garden, she instantly transforms back into a girl. Mentality affects appearance, and it is born from the heart. In other words, true beauty comes from the heart, not just the appearance.

The Moving Castle follows the beauty of Miyazaki's manga style, but the difference is that the graphics are more complex, the layout is fuller, and there are more pens. I think this may be a conscious attempt by the author to change.

The best impression and experience of this film for me is the ending song, which is really good! When the music plays slowly, it seems to be your soft words in your ear, which fits the feeling of love very well, and this is the singing after a breakup. Breaking up is not about reproach, regret and sadness, but understanding and remembering blessings, which is the most beautiful appearance of love. I wanted to add this ending song to embellish the clumsiness of this article, but unfortunately it won't be uploaded.

Watching cartoons from the same director in a row is inevitably aesthetically fatigued, so I have expectations for the newly introduced "Tonight, Even if this love disappears from the world".

"Howl's Moving Castle" ending song "The Promise of the World":

The smile swaying in the depths of tears is exactly what the world has always promised. Even though it was two people yesterday and now it's just me, I'm going to try to live today, just like the day we first met. Although you are not in my memory, you turn into a breeze and caress my cheeks. Even after we parted on that afternoon of sunshine pouring through the leaves, the world's agreement never ended. I'm the only one now, but next year is unknown. You taught me, the tenderness that crept into the night. Although you are not in my memory, you will live forever in the song of the river, in the color of the sky, and in the fragrance of the flowers.

Howl's Moving Castle (pictured at the time of viewing)