Still the ultimate but no more magic

Kenton 2022-04-22 07:01:43

To give three stars, two stars must be angry. It's been 11 years, since the last Spirited Away, Ghibli will finally be touched again later, as always, clean, extreme, with countless detailed pictures, music that complements the pictures, and the plot is weak, but this kind of animation that flows from life I can shoot for 90 minutes and it doesn't look like it's too long. I don't think it's bad. Finally, the overall evaluation, if it is an animation that does not have the Ghibi brand, I will give it five stars immediately. But as a Ghibli animation, compared with the previous works of the old master Gong, there is one thing missing, not the picture, not the music, not the plot, but the magic feeling. So Lao Gong is actually an old magician, is there any...

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  • Delmer 2022-03-19 09:01:06

    Although many people compare the Miyazaki father and son and laugh at his son for taking the father's way, the film itself is beautiful, and that's enough. It is even sometimes gratifying: Fortunately someone can continue this style, fortunately. In fact, if you look closely, you can still feel the progress of the work, which is more like a collection of the advantages of Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki. The delicate and simple living atmosphere + pure and fresh emotions are becoming more and more perfect.

  • Sheila 2022-03-29 09:01:06

    The painting style is fresh and beautiful, and the Japanese style of the 1960s, which is full of people's turbulence and waiting to be rebuilt, is also very vivid. It's just...why is this plot so bloody, or are the girly manga of the 1980s so terrifying? Maybe Miyazaki Goro has the same identity confusion as the people in the film. The burden of the tiger father and the dog is too heavy.

From Up on Poppy Hill quotes

  • Shun Kazama: There's no future for people who worship the future, and forget the past.