The first time I watched "Spirited Away" was in 2002. I was still in junior high school. In the past ten years, I have watched this movie many times: Chinese, Japanese, English, every time I watched it. I have been moved differently, and I have also grown up in this movie-watching experience time and time again. I don’t remember how I felt when I watched this film for the first time, but I’m sure that it’s not until now I finally stepped into the adult world and had to face the choices of adults that I really understood what Hayao Miyazaki thought. What to convey through this film.
There are no Disney-style absolute good and bad people in Hayao Miyazaki's world. It seems to be a metaphor of the real world. Isn't the world of gods that Chihiro was forced into by his parents in reluctance, like an adult society that young people have to face gradually? In this world, everyone must find their own value and position through work; everyone gradually becomes snobbish and secular, living in order to fill their desires. The faceless man in the film is not only desire but also temptation. He learns from human desires to seduce human beings, and expands because of human desires. People in the soup house scramble to please the desires until the desires swallow them. Their panic. Then they blamed the disaster on Chihiro, because it was Chihiro who first invited the faceless man into the soup house. But the desire for restraint is harmless—just as a faceless man becomes docile after leaving a soup house—only the hard-to-fill desires of human beings will brew disasters.
Only Chihiro can resist the temptation of desire in the soup house because she has not forgotten her name. And Granny Tang is using people's names to make them forget their own essence. Chihiro almost forgot his name, didn't he? It's not like those young people who have just been full of wings, are fascinated by material desires, forget their original dreams and beliefs, and drift away on the wrong path of desire?
"The light I found has always been with me." Miyazaki said that maybe the song Always with me gave him the story of Chihiro. This song eventually became the theme song of the film, as it was sung in the lyrics: "Every time we fall to the ground, looking up at the sky; we are amazed at her blue, it seems to be the first time in our lives." Travel and The meaning of adventure is: after searching, we know that the brightest and warmest power comes from the bottom of our hearts. In the world of Hayao Miyazaki, everything has spirituality, and even radishes have gods. The river god that Qianxun helped became completely unrecognizable because of human pollution; the young man that Qianxun fell in love with was not someone else, but the soul of a river. Only when someone is in harmony with all things can you discover that the best things in life come for free.
Some people say that this is an adult fairy tale. Indeed, the frustration of growing up conveyed in the film may only be understood by adults. But I think "Spirited Away" is more like a colorful fable that an old man tells the children slowly, telling them not to be afraid to grow, because life is a journey after all; but this old man also encourages them not to lose their innocence , Always retain the childlike mind and vision to perceive the world.
If what Disney weaves is an American dream: it pulls away the ugliness and leaves only the good, and strives to illustrate the power of dreams. Then Miyazaki's dream is in the Eastern style: tactful, profound and slightly complicated, euphemistically telling you the truth of the world, but at the same time letting you not forget the beauty of this world.
The reason why I think "Spirited Away" is a rare film (definitely Hayao Miyazaki's best work), because this is a film that not only depends on watching and listening, but also requires the soul to feel and fill it with fantasy. movie of. Many times we are moved by a certain detail, but we can't tell why, just like the clip of Chihiro riding a sea train to another city, which evokes the memories of each viewer's unique personal experience. But it caused some subtle emotional resonance. The tone of "Spirited Away" is sad. Even in the blue sea and blue sky, or in the dappled light and shadow of the world of gods, this sadness still permeates every corner of the movie and grabs the viewer's heart. This is the nostalgia of Hayao Miyazaki, but also the sadness brought by growth.
The trick of life is that you always believe that tomorrow is better than today-so that you have a reason to continue living-but as the years go by, you will find that the best times are always in the past. So we always long for growth when we are young, and then miss the past in the adult world. This is the tortoise and the hare between mind and time.
May everyone find the light in their hearts.
Finally, I attach the lyrics of the theme song (I didn’t find the Chinese translation, but I can read it in English)
Always with Me
-Yumi KIMURA
Somewhere, a voice calls, in the depths of my heart
May I always be dreaming, the dreams that move my heart
So many tears of sadness, uncountable through and through
I know on the other side of them I'll find you
Everytime we fall down to the ground we look up to the blue sky above
We wake to it's blueness, as for the first time
Though the road is long and lonely and the end far away, out of sight
I can with these two arms embrace the light
As I bid farewell my heart stops, in tenderness I feel
My silent empty body begins to listen to what is real
The wonder of living, the wonder of dying
The wind, town, and flowers, we all dance one unity
Somewhere a voice calls in the depths of my heart
keep dreaming your dreams, don' t ever let them part
Why speak of all your sadness or of life's painfull woes
Instead let the same lips sing a gentle song for you
The whispering voice, we never want to forget,
in each passing memory always there to guide you
When a miror has been broken, shattered pieces scattered on the ground
Glimpses of new life, reflected all around
Window of beginning, stillness, new light of the dawn
Let my silent, empty body be filled and reborn
No need to search outside, nor sail across the sea
Cause here shining inside me, it's right here inside me
I've found a brightness, it's always with me
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