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Maybe it makes me a heretic, but I found Howl's Moving Castle utterly incomprehensible.

• mcphage 4y ago
  The plot doesn't make a lot of sense. If you read the book it's based on (by Diana Wynne Jones) you will at least get how all the pieces fit together, but Miyazaki took it in his own direction. But I'd say all of the individual pieces are pretty amazing, even if the through line is weak.
• Aeolun 4y ago
  The plot sort of makes sense, but the storyline is so hard to follow that I have no idea what it was after I finish the movie.
• knodi123 4y ago
  I always thought that was sort of intentional, putting the viewer in the shoes of the hapless hat girl who was swept up into a world of power and intrigue that she had no context or experience to help her interpret what was going on. Yes, the whole "war" plot was confusing and grotesque- but that is how Sophie would experience it, right? The backstory with the witch of the waste is clearly incredibly consequential to Howl, but it's had to figure out until the end. But that's also Sophie's experience.