Garrett Dalton-Spirited Away

The film Spirited Away follows the tale of a little girl Chihiro as she embarks on a magical journey to another world. While moving into her new home, Chihiro and her parents take a detour and come upon a mysterious entrance. The world turns out to be home to spirits. The movie itself is an exercise in the ability of greed to consume ones life. Chihiro's parents exhibit the symptoms of greed from the very beginning of the movie when they gorge themselves in food that did not belong to them. They end up turning into pigs and it is up to Chihiro to find a way to turn them back into humans. Greed is again seen in the scenes at the bathhouse where a strange guest gives out gold in exchange for services. However, the guest does more than receive a bath and eats any that exhibit signs of greed. Chihiro is an example of good within the movie as she does not seem to be effected by greed. She accepts her task of saving her parents and is not by gestures of gold.