(534 words, excluding First Impressions)

First Impressions
I rarely watched Japanese movies or anime, I think I could count on my ten fingers how many Japanese animated series I have completed in my lifetime. The first time I watched this film Spirited Away was in last semester, which our lecturer want us to complete an assignment based on it. The movie is quite a new thing to me because I don't understand how Japanese anime works.

Main Point, what I like and dislike
The Like: I think the biggest difference between American films and Japanese films are how the characters act, regardless of is the character a real person. I like the concept of putting this whole world of ghost in an abandon fun park, it transformed a dead place into a place of the dead. Over the time, places got forgotten, and where do they go? Places like this. I'm not describing the setting that the movie uses, I'm talking about the idea behind it. Imagine a place once visited by thousands of people, let's take Sunway Lagoon for example. No one would know what it would be like 50 years later, even if people forget about this place, it will still be there, there will still be a place like this, just not like now.

"Even if you forgot it, it would still be there."

The writer has this imagination of turning dead places alive. I like how they draw animated still backgrounds, in that time of creating the movie, skills like this is very hard to achieve. I almost suck me into the movie. I like how the filmmaker has drawn food in the movie, it looks very tempting to eat and also has good use of colors and line quality, bringing the food to life. This is what you cannot find in other films by foreign countries.

Almost, because there are parts that I dislike in this film: Things that does not make sense, I get it, it's an animated film, it's Japan, and it's for the audience from all ages, they need to make something creative. First things first, it's how her father treated her, let's say she stayed in the car like her father told her to, what would happen to both of them, the father and the mother, who is going to save them both. Let's also say that her father brings her into that place, why would they even go into an abandoned place, they wanted to move into their new house, who in this world would have the idea of let's bring my wife and my daughter into this spooky abandoned park? I don't know what's in his father's head. It's not that you are brave so you could go in, it's about the safety of other people, what if there are wild animals that kill? You'll never know. Hence, he is an irresponsible father that only cares about himself.

Verdict, will I recommend watching it?
Yes, in fact, every Japanese famous animated film is worth the watch. Each enriched with different moral value because it is in their culture, most films need to have a meaning behind it that encourages people to do good, inspire people to succeed in life. It's an old film, but it still looks amazing, the way the characters were drawn, the way of life in Japan even though it's hand drawn, it still demonstrated it clearly in the film.

"If you are a fan of American films, it's not your thing. If you like classics, then it's worth your time."

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