REVIEW: SPIRITED AWAY

In this post I wanted to do a little throwback and review one of my favourite movies when I was little (and still now): Spirited away. I remember having this movie in VHS and watching it often and some years ago, when I watched it again after years I really liked it and it remained me a lot to my childhood.

Spirited Away is an fantasy animated movie, but it isn't only for children, it is also a movie for adults. It was released in 2001 and it was directed by Hayao Miyazaki, a famous Japanese director.

I'm going make a brief explanation of the plot, to situate you in the movie. The main character is Chihiro, a girl who is moving with his parents. While they are going to their new house they get lost in a little village and their parents decide to eat in a little restaurant on the street. Because of the food they get transformed into pigs. From this point, Chihiro starts her magical trip to find the way to turn her parents into humans again. Almost the whole movie takes place in a bathouse in which the clients and the employees are magical creatures.

As you can see by the plot, it is little weird movie but I guess that is what caught my

attention when I was little. But besides its weirdness, it is a very complete movie. It is very marked by the Japanese culture and beliefs, which means that there are still a lot of things about this movie left for me to understand because I don't really know a lot about the Japanese culture, it is a story in which the hero is a little girl, it has a beautiful love story and it is a movie that shows you many values through a big variety of characters, each one of them with their own peculiarities.

In my opinion, it is a good movie for children, because it's about adventures and there are funny moments (although some things are so weird that I remember some things were a little bit scary for me when I was little), but it is also a good movie for adults, because there is a lot of symbolism behind it, and the whole movie works as a critique to the capitalist society from the 80s in Japan.

In conclusion, I really recommend this movie because it is entertaining, weird in a good way and if you go a little bit deeper, you'll find a movie full of values and symbolism. 

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