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Movie Review (Sen to Chihiro) Spirited Away
(Sen to Chihiro) Spirited Away
Synopsis
Stubborn, spoiled, and naïve, 10-year-old Chihiro Ogino is less than pleased when she and her parents discover an abandoned amusement park on the way to their new house. Cautiously venturing inside, she realizes that there is more to this place than meets the eye, as strange things begin to happen once dusk falls. Ghostly apparitions and food that turns her parents into pigs are just the start—Chihiro has unwittingly crossed over into the spirit world. Now trapped, she must summon the courage to live and work amongst spirits, with the help of the enigmatic Haku and the cast of unique characters she meets along the way.
Starting from the wrong path taken by Chihiro's father when they were about to go to their new home. Then they entered a foreign territory, despite Chihiro's opposition, his parents insisted on exploring the area. Until the night before and various strange creatures that form and shape began to emerge.
Chihiro's parents then transformed into a pair of fat pigs, leaving Chihiro trapped in this supernatural world and confused about where to go. Luckily he met a mysterious young boy named Haka who advised Chihiro to ask for a job with Yubaba, the old wizard who ruled the public bath house where Haka worked.
While in the public bath house, Chihiro, who is now called just Sen, began to adapt to his new environment. He has other new friends like Kamaji, a spider-armed, many-handed grandfather, the servant girl Lin, and a delicate creature named Kaonashi or No-Face. Sen's tenacity at work makes him a human being who can finally be accepted by his surroundings. Even so, Sen still had to be able to free himself, his parents, also Haka, from Yubaba's magic bond.
When I first saw the movie, I didn't see what the big deal was. All right, so a girl gets whisked away to a fantasy world? We've heard that story before. And, unlike many other movies, there's no dramatic love story or epic battles and action scenes to keep you at the edge of your seat. Consequently, I didn't think of it as being very exciting.
Still, I watched it again and, for some reason, I got it the second time around. Spirited Away isn't meant to be anything grand, with all the bells and whistles. It has a quiet, subdued way of telling a simple story about a simple girl in a very strange world. Instead of expecting something huge, just sit back, watch, and appreciate the world and story Miyazaki has finely crafted for us all to enjoy.
To get to the technical aspects...
The art is, of course, amazing. The colours are rich and the animation is fluid. When Chihiro and her family first walk into the spirit world, you can practically feel the breeze as you watch it whisk through the grass. The lights of the spirit world at night are breathtaking. And watching the train ride closer to the end of the movie, coupled with the amazing music score (the track is called "The Sixth Station"), remains one of my most favourite animation sequences out of anything I've seen. Which brings me to another point: the music.
I will get this out of the way first - Joe Hisaishi is one of my favourite composers. His music style is very simple, but he makes every note count. Most of his music is quite subdued in nature and takes a careful ear to notice when your eyes are being captivated by what's going on in the screen, but do take notice if you have the chance. Or search on YouTube for videos of his live performances. His music is a joy to listen to. Like with Spirited Away, Hisaishi's music lacks all the "bells and whistles" per se, but it's beauty lies in its simplicity. Hisaishi has not failed here in Spirited Away.
I dearly loved the characters. One of the best parts of this movie, for me, was that it lacked any clear good or evil characters. Everyone has a bit of both, though perhaps some allow the evil sides of them to come out a bit more obviously than others. In this way, it's very realistic. Granted, the characters were all quite predictable and Chihiro grated on my nerves at times, but overall, I enjoyed each and every one of the characters Miyazaki has create here.
Overall, Spirited Away is one of my favourite movies
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Movie Review Wedding Dress
WEDDING DRESS
"The essence of the story is simple,
about the life of a child who lives with his mother after the death of his
father. Sora is the only little girl of the wayang Go-eun
(Song Yu Na), unlike other children, sora's daily life in her class plus Sora
has a dispute with her classmate, Gina. make sora
reluctant to join and play with his friends. The mother
who works as a famous wedding dress designer, is always busy taking care of her
work, until often giving less attention to Sora, which makes Sora more
comfortable to live with her aunt who was very fond of her. But to be a good mother, Go-eun also never gave up on happy sora days,
such as efforts to restore a smile when Sora felt lonely without friends.
Ko-woon (Song Yun-Ah) is a single mother
who has one daughter named So-ra (Kim Hyang-Gi) who is still in elementary
school. Ko-woon works as a bridal fashion designer in a fashion house in Korea.
Ko-woon has cancer which causes him to routinely check up and take medicine, so
he always looks strong, strong, and cheerful, so he doesn't know about the
disease that plagued his mother, so he's an introverted child This is what
causes So-ra not to have any friends, both at school and at the ballet dance
lessons, even though Ko-woon deliberately registers So-ra at a ballet dance
place so that his children can socialize more with other people. it happened
that So-ra always skipped class in her dance. Seeing So-ra's social condition
which was considered very concerning made Ko-woon feel very confused and sad.
He only wanted So-ra to have good social relations, to have many friends, and
You can see his child taking part in a ballet dance competition. It is not
uncommon for So-ra to see her mother holding back pain and hiding in the
bathroom so that So-ra doesn't see her. Besides that, So-ra also knew the
condition of her mother who often drank medicine in various circumstances, both
not sick and while holding pain, but she did not dare to ask directly to her
mother about her health. He chose to remain silent and pretend not to know the
condition of his sick mother, but he still tried to ascertain the illness that
plagued his mother by asking directly to his aunt who was his sister-in-law
from his mother. So-ra begs her aunt not to tell her mother about him who
already knows the condition of her mother's illness. So-ra gradually began to
understand about her mother's hopes for her. He also tried to improve his
social relations with the people around him, he also became diligent in
practicing ballet so that he could take part in the ballet competition that
would soon be held. When the condition of Ko-woon increasingly hunted down and
forced himself to be hospitalized Soa ra was very sad and tried to make her
happy mother who was lying in the hospital. So-ra asks for the help of her
friends to visit her mother in the hospital. Seeing So-ra bring her friends to
visit her, Ko-woon feels very happy. Moreover, he also knew that So-ra would
take part in the ballet competition in the near future and he tried his best so
he could see his son's performance. All that So-ra did succeeded in making
Ko-woon happy and relieved to leave So-ra. "
Wedding Dress really managed to touch me,
especially seeing the acting of Kim Hyang-Gi who played the character So-ra.
Hyang-Gi was right— really played totally and finally made the character So-ra
truly alive and made the audience carried away with all his emotions.Not only
Hyang-Gi played in total, Hyang-Gi was assisted by Song Yun-Ah who played as
his mother's character. Ah also managed to revive his character and again also
made the audience carried away by his character.They showed a very strong
relationship between mother and child, moreover he was a single parent who had
to prepare his child to be stronger because sooner or later So-ra would being
an orphan, this film clearly has a clear social message and is very easy to
catch by the audience, that is, the relationship between mother and child
requires collaboration between both parties and the priority are mutual
understanding and willingness to share. Ko-woon and So-ra show a strong
relationship between mother and child, how they share, fill, and understand
each other. Seeing the struggle of So-ra who always looks tough in front of his
mother and how he struggles to prove to his mother that he can fulfill all of
Ko-woon's hopes for him. One of the scenes that most made me unable to hold
back tears was when So-ra woke up in the morning and realized that her mother
had died but she still acted as usual and decided to leave her mother's room.
There he was alone and cried desperately, now that his mother had been left
behind forever.
One lesson that can be learned in this
film, which is reflected in the love of a mother who is so great to her child,
it deserves to be rewarded with the love of the child to her mother. Highly recommended for lovers of moving drama films.
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