one side of it
[jan 16 2005, 22:33]
just in case you've been wondering... i'm working on something new, that's why i haven't been able to write anything lately. but i'll get going again, i promise!
i just watched 'sen', aka 'Miyazaki's Spirited Away' or 'Sen and the Mysterious Disappearance of Chihiro' or 'Chihiros Reise ins Zauberland'.
until lately, i never liked all that japanese animation and comic stuff that seems to be in at the moment. i must admit that i had watched two or three episodes of sailor moon, just because there was nothing else to do on such a rainy afternoon when school was over. but that was years ago.
recently, a colleague of mine gave me the 'ghost in the shell - stand alone complex' series and since then i've been intoxicated.
the storytelling was amazing, just like the visuals. and although i really had to get used to the japanese dialogue going on, i quickly kind of got into the flow and it just kept going and going.
and now, after having seen ghost in the shell, the movie yesterday, today i put chihiro into my dvd drive.
and i must say that it was perhaps the most amazing film in quite some time. it was just like the big fish experience. it's a movie that grips you and doesn't really let you go again, even when it's over.
the story sounds strangely familiar. by accident, a young girl gets stranded in a world full of wickedness and weirdness, full of peculiar creatures and mysteries, and in the course of the story, she transforms from the timid little girl into that strong character, finding new friends along the way and, in the end, even getting along with those thought to be foes.
it's something like alice in wonderland, which i read recently, but it's also much more.
it's a movie that makes you, subconsciously, question a lot of things about your life, about yourself. it makes you feel warm and cozy inside when it's over and - of course - all the problems are resolved and everyone lives happily everafter. but moreover, it urges you to get out to a place you haven't been for a while or perhaps to a new place altogether and look out for the small, tiny, hardly visible things. because sometimes they can become the starting point of something you couldn't have imagined in your wildest dreams.
it's a good thing when a movie flashes me so much that i could write and write about it. this one did, but as i'm tired from the (recurring) renovating done around here, as i'll have to get up at half past five tomorrow morning to take a test in business processes, probably the most boring subject ever invented, and as i want to think some more about this wonderful piece of art, i'll have to end for now and leave you with the nagging desire to get to the next shop and buy that dvd.
and, by the way, the fact that the girl that gets featured in one of the various german mostly-crap tv channels for being in a movie that nobody really wants to see ('my mom's just different'... what's that supposed to be?) - the fact that this girl was the german voice for chihiro completely slipped past me as i, by habit, watched the movie in the original version with subtitles. thanks, imdb.
charon
song of the day: lamb - till the clouds clear
i just watched 'sen', aka 'Miyazaki's Spirited Away' or 'Sen and the Mysterious Disappearance of Chihiro' or 'Chihiros Reise ins Zauberland'.
until lately, i never liked all that japanese animation and comic stuff that seems to be in at the moment. i must admit that i had watched two or three episodes of sailor moon, just because there was nothing else to do on such a rainy afternoon when school was over. but that was years ago.
recently, a colleague of mine gave me the 'ghost in the shell - stand alone complex' series and since then i've been intoxicated.
the storytelling was amazing, just like the visuals. and although i really had to get used to the japanese dialogue going on, i quickly kind of got into the flow and it just kept going and going.
and now, after having seen ghost in the shell, the movie yesterday, today i put chihiro into my dvd drive.
and i must say that it was perhaps the most amazing film in quite some time. it was just like the big fish experience. it's a movie that grips you and doesn't really let you go again, even when it's over.
the story sounds strangely familiar. by accident, a young girl gets stranded in a world full of wickedness and weirdness, full of peculiar creatures and mysteries, and in the course of the story, she transforms from the timid little girl into that strong character, finding new friends along the way and, in the end, even getting along with those thought to be foes.
it's something like alice in wonderland, which i read recently, but it's also much more.
it's a movie that makes you, subconsciously, question a lot of things about your life, about yourself. it makes you feel warm and cozy inside when it's over and - of course - all the problems are resolved and everyone lives happily everafter. but moreover, it urges you to get out to a place you haven't been for a while or perhaps to a new place altogether and look out for the small, tiny, hardly visible things. because sometimes they can become the starting point of something you couldn't have imagined in your wildest dreams.
it's a good thing when a movie flashes me so much that i could write and write about it. this one did, but as i'm tired from the (recurring) renovating done around here, as i'll have to get up at half past five tomorrow morning to take a test in business processes, probably the most boring subject ever invented, and as i want to think some more about this wonderful piece of art, i'll have to end for now and leave you with the nagging desire to get to the next shop and buy that dvd.
and, by the way, the fact that the girl that gets featured in one of the various german mostly-crap tv channels for being in a movie that nobody really wants to see ('my mom's just different'... what's that supposed to be?) - the fact that this girl was the german voice for chihiro completely slipped past me as i, by habit, watched the movie in the original version with subtitles. thanks, imdb.
charon
song of the day: lamb - till the clouds clear