Jonathan Hughes-Spirited Away

Spirited Away is a Japanese Anime film that focuses on a young girl, and an abandoned theme park which serves as a gateway between the spirit world and the human world. The film serves a coming of age tale, which features a young girl who is suddenly tossed into a situation where she has to grow up, or basically be destroyed. A main theme in the film is greed, this is evident when Chihiro comes back and finds that her parents have transformed into pigs from eating so much. At the beginning of the film Chihiro was scared and timid, but at the end of the film she is courgious and saves her parents from the grasp of the spirits. The film really shows the transformation when someone is put into a tough situation where they are either forced to sink or swim.