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Lovely movie really, but with all Miyazaki films, I leaved the theater feeling like I missed great part of the meaning behind it.

dangus 3y ago
My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, and The Wind Rises are quite straightforward in structure and meaning.
- zoover2020 3y ago
  How about Howl's castle?
  - dangus 3y ago
    I was thinking about adding more to that list but a lot of them I haven’t seen in a while. As I recall, Porco Rosso is pretty straightforward as well. I’m pretty sure Princess Mononoke is basically like “hurting the forest is bad!” Even Spirited Away with all of its foreign-to-the-West spiritual concepts is pretty approachable.
jesterson 3y ago
A good advice here may be to review the movie later. Even after watching his masterpieces way more than a dozen times, I still find something new for myself.
TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
This is going to sound like heresy but I never understood what is the big deal with Ghibli’s films. They have good production values … and that’s about it really. I never really connect with the stories - they aren’t bad stories but they never really made much of an impact on me.
- walteweiss 3y ago
  It’s for the kids. You meant to re-watch them millions of times, and that’s where the beauty lay. You see new details, you come to understand each second was thoroughly thought of. He is a genius, Hayao Miyazaki. Most of Disney / Pixar movies, you’re gonna hate them after a couple of re-watches.
  - Obscurity4340 3y ago
    What do you think it means if someone never outgrows this? Like what if you have zero compunction about re-watching old stuff?
    - walteweiss 3y ago
      For me personally that’s a nightmare. I don’t like to dwell in the past too much. But there are always people I know personally, who can remember some very precise things of the past (e.g. me wearing something very common and usual during some very common and usual event at, say, school). Whilst I cannot even remember the event took place at all, so usual it was. They not gaslight me, I know, as with their reminders I can remember some minuscule details. But I see them themselves as someone living in the past way too much. ‘Good ol’ days,’ you know. I’m not a very enlightened person myself, but this living in the past is way too much for me. That’s what I feel about re-watching some shitty movie over and over again. Even cult ones, like Rocky, original Star Wars, Terminator etc. It feels way too much for me. A tiny dose of nostalgia once a few years maybe, that’s okay. But being there over and over, nah.
      - Obscurity4340 3y ago
        I don't mean like watching season 3 only ever for the rest of your life. Like i watch it over and then I rewatch something over. Most of the time, im doing other shit but ya

dangus 3y ago

My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, and The Wind Rises are quite straightforward in structure and meaning.

zoover2020 3y ago
How about Howl's castle?
- dangus 3y ago
  I was thinking about adding more to that list but a lot of them I haven’t seen in a while. As I recall, Porco Rosso is pretty straightforward as well. I’m pretty sure Princess Mononoke is basically like “hurting the forest is bad!” Even Spirited Away with all of its foreign-to-the-West spiritual concepts is pretty approachable.

jesterson 3y ago

A good advice here may be to review the movie later. Even after watching his masterpieces way more than a dozen times, I still find something new for myself.

TerrifiedMouse 3y ago

This is going to sound like heresy but I never understood what is the big deal with Ghibli’s films. They have good production values … and that’s about it really. I never really connect with the stories - they aren’t bad stories but they never really made much of an impact on me.

walteweiss 3y ago
It’s for the kids. You meant to re-watch them millions of times, and that’s where the beauty lay. You see new details, you come to understand each second was thoroughly thought of. He is a genius, Hayao Miyazaki. Most of Disney / Pixar movies, you’re gonna hate them after a couple of re-watches.
- Obscurity4340 3y ago
  What do you think it means if someone never outgrows this? Like what if you have zero compunction about re-watching old stuff?
  - walteweiss 3y ago
    For me personally that’s a nightmare. I don’t like to dwell in the past too much. But there are always people I know personally, who can remember some very precise things of the past (e.g. me wearing something very common and usual during some very common and usual event at, say, school). Whilst I cannot even remember the event took place at all, so usual it was. They not gaslight me, I know, as with their reminders I can remember some minuscule details. But I see them themselves as someone living in the past way too much. ‘Good ol’ days,’ you know. I’m not a very enlightened person myself, but this living in the past is way too much for me. That’s what I feel about re-watching some shitty movie over and over again. Even cult ones, like Rocky, original Star Wars, Terminator etc. It feels way too much for me. A tiny dose of nostalgia once a few years maybe, that’s okay. But being there over and over, nah.
    - Obscurity4340 3y ago
      I don't mean like watching season 3 only ever for the rest of your life. Like i watch it over and then I rewatch something over. Most of the time, im doing other shit but ya