My group watched Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki. Now, there are two ways to view a "very Japanese" movie such as this. If you are expecting a logical movie that makes sense, you are going to feel very lost, and generally unsatisfied. However, if you understand this style of cinematography and all of its collective kooky goodness, you will enjoy this movie a lot.
The movie uses a familiar Japanese animation style: "animeish" characters with a more detailed background, almost like a painting. The voice acting is of great quality and fits the movie perfectly, as it is very well synced and the voices are believable. These qualities are great and all, but what makes the movie unique and brilliant is the characters. All of the characters are deep and mysterious, and are almost never what they seem at first. Almost all of the characters have a "revelation" scene in which their past and true motives are revealed. This keeps the story going and the plot fresh and gripping, showing that there is in fact a method to the copious amounts of madness!
As crazy as the movie is, it is charming nonetheless. Everything that happens is memorable in its own, unique way. (However, I almost vomited when I heard "The spell can only be broken by love!" Can you think of anything more stock! Go back to Disney!)
All in all, this movie is a definite must-see for anyone who understands Japanese cinematography, and isn't expecting someone to get shot at least once every ten minutes. This is a long movie, but if you know what you're getting into, you'll love it!
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I really like your first paragraph, it's very true that in order to enjoy the movie you have to know what you're getting into, or at least don't expect a normal movie, whatever that may be. It may be strange and hard to follow, but as long as you don't hate the movie just for that, it really is a good movie, and mostly because it is so strange and out of the ordinary. That may not really make sense, but then, neither did the movie, so it all evens out.
Ruh.
I concur. Unless you are prepared to be trippin' out, you won't really enjoy such a trippy movie. You'll just wonder what in the name of all that is jackassery is going on here.
I'll bring the ecstasy next time.
punk kid, your post name is way too long!
But yeah, I agree, generally animes are fairly "cracky"/"trippeh"
but you didn't really get into how this movie/Miyazaki distinguishes himself/itself
also sry for late post, my internets dropped out last night
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