Recently I've been making up for Hayao Miyazaki's movies.
For me, the initial stage of the legend has a certain amount of moisture. Because of the high evaluation, I have increased my expectations. If I really read it, I will find that there is a gap with my psychological expectations, and then I will be disappointed.
I think this gap is caused by the age. If you don't watch it at the best time for the release, there will be such a gap.
From "Spirited Away" to this "Howl's Moving Castle", the best combination of Hayao Miyazaki and Joe Hisaishi has gradually penetrated into my heart, and the master is really a master. Exquisite pictures, each seemingly simple and beautiful fairy tale has a deeper meaning behind it, such as environmental protection, anti-war, family, love, friendship... His movies do not have absolute bad guys, but there are absolute good guys. For example, in "City in the Sky", those pirates who seem to be very bad also have very warm hearts, which can't help but make people hate them and be moved by them.
In his films, story scenes, names, and costumes combine Chinese and Western styles. The labels of individual works are not too heavy, and are easily accepted by people from different cultural backgrounds. This is one of the reasons why his works can compete with Disney animations. .
In my opinion, Howl's Moving Castle is second only to Spirited Away, and moved me deeply from the beginning. Love, waiting and responsibility, good and evil. Hal looked at the aging Susan affectionately, and Susan embraced the evil witch with her kind heart.
It turned out that she asked him to wait for her, but she forgot about him. She is old and has nothing to fear of losing, but she tolerates the timid him, helps him find his heart, and finally, like in a fairy tale, lives together happily.
Good triumphs over evil, and even war is far away.
The dreamlike magic creates a beautiful yearning for the audience, which is the greatest charm of Miyazaki's films.
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