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Spirited away eng subtitle5/28/2023 Chihiro first finds herself in the bowels of a furnace helping magically animated soot feed coal into the burner, but soon she works in the central bathhouse above, where the desperate social angling of other laborers can be seen in the constant jockeying for tips and bath tokens. The fastidious Miyazaki envisions the spirit realm from the ground up, and a surprising amount of this children’s film is devoted to exploring the social stratification and economy of the area. Along the way, she meets witches, animist spirits, and demons, each of whom adds a new wrinkle to Chihiro’s quest. When her parents wander into a strange village and undergo a Circean transformation into pigs, 10-year-old Chihiro must venture into a shadow world to find the key to saving them. If the theme of the film is simple, however, the narrative is anything but. At its heart, the film is about a spoiled child taking responsibility to save herself and her parents, as elemental a hero’s journey as they come. ![]() Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away belongs to a tradition of moralistic and instructive bedtime stories.
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