Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I love going into movies and shows blind, but in hindsight, i wish spirited away wasn’t my first ghibli film. As I mentioned in my princess mononoke review, spirited away wastes no time with forced exposition or any sort of warm up to the setting or characters. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it definitely pushed me out of my comfort zone and made me feel a bit off balanced for a good bit of the movie. Once i…
Similar to spirited away, within the first few minutes you’re thrust into crisis, which I think from being used to the pacing of American animated films, the speed felt a bit disorienting and in the case of spirited away, I felt like I was constantly processing the previous moment in the current moment. But with princess mononoke I felt way more prepared for the style and pacing of it. It also felt so much simpler to digest because, at face value,…