Spirited Away is an anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was released in 2001 and has won a wave of critical acclaim since its release. Won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature film at the 75th Academy Awards. No one can understand Spirited Away, and at different ages, we might have interpreted the film differently.
The film is set in Japan during the bubble economy, and Miyazaki wants to remind people of that time. Don’t lose yourself and don’t let Japan go further and further down the lost road. At the beginning of the film, Chihiro’s car pulls into a fork in the road, which means that Japan’s economy also begins to change lanes. Chihiro’s parents were also representatives of adults during Japan’s bubble economy. Galloping over unpaved roads. Blind search, greedy exploration. They ate the “food” she shouldn’t eat, and finally, they were turned into a pig.
Chihiro’s experience represents the film’s main theme — self-loss, self-search, and self-growth. Chihiro at the beginning of the film is a timid little girl who likes to cry and has no manners. But with her experience in the soup house, she became brave and strong and polite. What changed her? Maybe it was Haku’s unrequited help for her, maybe it was Kamaji’s kindness, maybe it was Lin’s care for her. In a word, love in that unreal world…
Maybe we all need a friend like Haku in our childhood. Step forward when we are in danger. But we are often not as lucky as Chihiro. Haku is not so much the protector of Chihiro in that world as the appearance of Chihiro lets Haku find himself. To learn magic, he was used by Yubaba, do all the bad things for her. He lost his name, he lost his memory. At first think, Haku is a capable and lovely little boy, but think carefully, he is not our loss.
There are also many educational characters in the film. For example, Yubaba Is a mercenary bureaucrat who oppresses labor, while her twin sister Zeniba is completely different from her. Giant babies were children in the hothouse of a time spoiled by their parents. Their parents take good care of them, but they forget that what they need most is to make their way in the world. Kamaji is the oppressed working people. An age but also have three heads six arms, every day to work on the post. Lin was a hard-working young woman in that era. But the heart is tied to the outside world, full of infinite longing for the unknown.
I was thinking about the name of the movie – Spirited Away. I think the name means “to be mysteriously hidden.” Every one of us is a Chihiro. Every one of us has had a trip like this. Chihiro has walked the road we have walked. We have become brave and strong from the initial cowardice. We find ourselves in the way we lost ourselves. We seek ourselves in the path of our smallness. All the way we harvest affection, harvest friendship, harvest love. The road of life is like the water train that won’t go back and forth, someone will get off the station in the middle, someone will accompany you to the end. Growth is always accompanied by loss, even nostalgia does not look back.
I hope the eyes you’ve seen are still bright and clear.
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