Scott Springmann - Spirited Away

I found this movie to be fascinating. The different representations of spirits in a Japanese perspective were particularly interesting to watch. We saw different embodiments of spirits that represented different things and I found it interesting that the spirits were drawn having actual physical bodies and that the spirits would go to a bathhouse to be cleansed. In western culture we tend to think of spirits as amorphous vapors that don’t really interact much with society. One of my favorite scenes was when they had to cleanse the “stink spirit” but when they actually cleaned it they found out that it was actually the spirit of a polluted river. I found this to be a very interesting commentary on the pollution that we have in our world.