Matt Brookman Spirited Away

The film Spirited Away was an animated film we viewed during the last class. I’m not a big fan of animated movies, but I had a feeling if you were showing it that the movie was going to be good and also have a deeper meaning than what we might first think. The movie follows a little girl through a place where spirits go to cleanse themselves. She becomes trapped in this place or alternate world. She begins to go along with the rituals at this place because she is trying to get her parents back because they were turned into pigs after eating all this food that was for the spirits to enjoy. The young girl becomes distracted from her parents to help out someone else. The determination of the young girl ends up changing attitudes of the spirits and others who seem to be humans. Her hard work and determination payoff in the long run because she saves the young boy and got her parents back. I think the message in the movie was focused in on sacred places. The point was to show the audience that certain places are not to be disturbed. I found it similar to that of your experience in or near Japan when the lady smacked you because she felt you were not showing respect for the sacred burials, or that she was just trying to teach you something about the culture and how they view the dead.