Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki wrote the script after he decided thta the film would be based on his friend's ten-year-old girl, who went to visit his house each summer. The main character of Spirited away is a ten-year-old girl named Chihiro Ogino. Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation film studio founded in June 1985. The company's logo features the character Totoro (a large forest spirit).
The major themes of Spirited Away center on the protagonist Chihiro and her liminal journey through the realm of the bathhouse of the gods. A spoiled child forced into the fantastic world, Chihiro becomes completely separated from everything she has known and must find her way back to reality. Chihiro’s experience in the alternate world, frequently compared to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, represents her passage from childhood to adulthood.
Beneath the surface coming-of-age theme, Spirited Away contains critical commentary on modern Japanese society concerning generational conflicts, the struggle with dissolving traditional culture and customs within a global society, and environmental pollution. Chihiro, as a representation of the liminalshōjo, "may be seen as a metaphor for the Japanese society which, over the last decade, seems to be increasingly in limbo, drifting uneasily away from the values and ideological framework of the immediate postwar era.
3 comments:
very interesting i look forrward to your next 2 paragraghs
1) Good detail
2) Nice reference to Alice in Wonderland
3) Nicely written
P.S. Spirited Away is one of my favorite movies.
1. I like how you gave some information about the Japanese studio.
2. The movie sounds very interesting.
3. Good job on overall everything.
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