Shallow reading

Juliet 2022-04-20 09:01:12

Again and again, I told the dolphins that I was an unliterate person.

Stand in a bookstore and read a book about Japanese movies, writing Howl's Moving Castle. The point is so interesting, so amusing that I can't retell it now sitting in front of my computer. But I love that movie, and after watching it, I often think of Sophie's flying silver hair and her sometimes young and sometimes old face. The reason for liking is also simple, because it is talking about love, pure and straightforward love. Magic, war, witches are not important, what matters is howl crying like a child because "the color of the hair is not beautiful", the home he gave Sophie before the war, the bloody hug, the Sophie's increasingly beautiful face was the cheesy happy ending.

I love that movie. Love those simple things. Love turns people into children. Love makes people beautiful. Love can conquer time. After all, I have taken several classes related to movies, but I just don't want to see those structures, those metaphors, those narrative systems. I would like to be deceived by myself, deceived by the image, immersed in it, and then shut down the computer in a satisfied manner, crying and laughing. The movie I love, I don't even want to write a movie review for it, as if that kind of feeling is lost in the original tacit understanding of the movie once it is written.

How should I put it, I know that my sensibility cannot be overcome, and there are too many things that cannot be explained. I'm afraid that's why I can't always be a good student. It just can't be deep. If you like it, you can't jump out, if you don't like it, you can't watch it. Always an emotional reading. There is never a clear presentation of the outline. There is never an opinion. So there is a lot of fun that only you know.

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Extended Reading
  • Juston 2021-10-20 19:01:24

    Your hair is dyed the color of stars... The color of love...

  • Camylle 2022-03-19 09:01:03

    I have watched the animation many times. I like the male protagonist's face, but I find that I have no resistance to the more handsome anime characters? I like Hayao Miyazaki's animation very pure.

Howl's Moving Castle quotes

  • Markl: [reading the newspaper] But the newspaper says we won.

    Witch of the Waste: [smoking a cigar] Only idiots believe what they read in the paper.

    Old Sophie: That's so strange, I can't get Calcifer going!

    [to the Witch of the Waste]

    Old Sophie: Do you have to keep smoking that? It smells terrible!

    Witch of the Waste: Don't deny an old witch her pleasures, young lady.

    Old Sophie: Markl, will you crack a window, please?

    Witch of the Waste: [continues smoking] I wouldn't open that window if I were you, dear. Calcifer's too weak right now to protect this place, Suliman's henchmen could get in.

  • Young Sophie: [Approaches the Witch of the Waste while she tries to hide Howl's heart] Howl needs that back now.

    Witch of the Waste: Don't look at me, I don't have it, I don't know what you're talking about.

    Young Sophie: [hugs her] Please give it back.

    Witch of the Waste: You really want it that badly?

    Young Sophie: [on the verge of crying] Yes.

    Witch of the Waste: Alright then, you'd better take good care of it.

    Young Sophie: Okay.

    Witch of the Waste: [hands her Howl's heart] Here, dear.

    Young Sophie: Thank you, you have a big heart!

    [kisses her]