this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
49 points (100.0% liked)
Studio Ghibli (スタジオ ジブリ)
1143 readers
1 users here now
- No NSFW allowed!
- No lewdness allowed!
- Cite your sources!
- Keep it wholesome!
- Refrain from politics!
- Language is English but Japanese titles and short comments eg. “かわいい！” are allowed. This is because my Japanese is shit and thus I cannot moderate it effectively.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Spirited away, just because I saw it as a child and it got me hooked on Miyasaki for life. It remains one of the most fun ones for me. It has the right balance between reality and fantasy, between fun and action/danger.
It also has that feeling of looking at a strange world as an outsider that I love, which is the reason I liked the first harry potter film/book for example. The wonder of a new, strange world with new rules that we do not comprehend.
The worldbuildling inside the bathhouse is incredible.
I always really liked how they showed the furnaces and living quarters.
I also like the world building outside very much. It's not as strong as inside the bathhouse but very mysterious. When the train goes past that house on the island, you can see that there are drying clothes on the line. So someone actually lives there. I wonder where the ghost go that get off the train. Most hauntingly there is a small ghost child on one of the platforms just standing there and looking at the train as it goes by. Does she want to get on? And then they go past these neon adds looking things before they get to the swamp. Really puts the bathhouse in perspective and makes you feel that there is a whole world out there in just a few minutes.