Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki is considered as one of the greatest animated filmmaker of his time. Studio Ghibli’s works are a breakthrough in modern animation, bringing both reality and fantasy together in a whole other level and give the audience something that they can keep with them long after they have seen the films. It’s more than a moral to the story, and more than a lesson that we must learn from the protagonist’s adventure(s). Miyazaki’s movies are not black and white, but actually rather more…

On the surface of Spirited Away it is very entertaining. It is a kids movie that is a cartoon and has lessons about it. Something any person would see off of Disney Channel or WTTW Kids. Like anything, when you analyze it and take it apart you can find deeper meanings hidden under small quotes. There are many different themes that can be taken from Spirited Away including but not limited to love, trust, and self analysis. In Spirited Away the love shared by Chihiro and Haku is a love that…

throughout the movies; however, they were not able to see what they were feeling or thinking. For example, in “Spirited Away” there were many scenes were Lin or Haku, two characters development, helping Chihiro to succeed; the storyteller didn’t provide any information as to why they were helping her or the audience couldn’t tell what these two minor characters were thinking. However,…

make you feel and reflect upon all that Chihiro has been through. They use serene harmony with ambient noises, while at the same time the scenes begin to tame from thrilling events to just sitting and watching the beautiful landscape slowly drifting away. The use of calming sounds and slowly moving scenes let the audience feel how she is finally able to calm down…

environment around them. Instead, they become fixated on desires stemmed from greed. Director, Hayao Miyazaki demonstrates many instances of the idea of environmentalism in our world, in his film Spirited Away, as well as how it relates to the popular japanese concept of spirits. The movie Spirited Away utilizes environmental imagery as a method to demonstrate the ways in which human activities have affected spirits, thus suggesting that the complex relationship…

As presented in the movie Spirited Away, Chihiro is faced with the journey of growing into adulthood. What starts as a story of a little girl faced with the difficulty of moving to a new school, turns into a coming of age story as Chihiro realizes she must conquer many challenges on her own in order to save her family. She is forced to cope with being taken away from her friend, while thrown into a new setting. When she finds herself in a new world and separated from her parents, she begins to…

Spirited Away uses the motif of food, which plays a crucial role in every transformation. The first transformation occurs when Chihiro’s parents devour the food they find in an empty park. Because the spirits perceived them as greedy consumers without appreciation, they transform the two consumers into pigs – a possible source of food themselves. The intemperate consumption of food resulted in a negative transformation, which began the plot for Chihiro to rescue her parents. The negative…

Spirited Away is an animated film directed and written by Hayao Miyazaki. In this animated feature, Chihiro a 10-year-old girl disapproves of the choice of her parents to move to a new house, especially when she notices that the bouquet of flowers her friend gave her as a good-bye gift is wilting. Chihiro and her parents stumble upon a seemingly abandoned amusement park while searching for their new house. At the abandoned amusement park her mother and father are turned into giant pigs. Chihiro…

Spirited Away is an animated Japanese film (anime), by Hayao Miyazaki, he “has made many famous films including; Laputa: The Castle in The Sky (1986) and Princess Mononoke (1997) and his excellent work has earned him the title of ‘Walt Disney of Japan’” (Dugdale). Even though the film maker decided to retire in 1997, he decided to create Spirited Away after noticing that young girls don’t have much to look out to in the media other that romance, he wanted to create a film “in which they could be…

technique, great narratives can be produced while providing insightful views and commentary upon the world, whether they are subtle or not depends on the film. Not every film produced is meant to follow this familiar structure and some have broken away from the normal to make a film that is close to those who create it. Directors that have made various films have been known to reiterate topics within their films, but be told through a different narrative and bring forth beliefs through their…