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Kiki's Delivery Service
Oct. 9th, 2005 02:55 pmFinished watching Kiki's Delivery Service directed by the Japanese director whose name I can't spell, but he also did Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle.
Lovely animated film. Made me cry and smile. It's the story of an apprentice witch who leaves her country village at the age of 13 to learn her craft. It's traditional for witchs to leave home at thirteen (odd age choice - wonder if this a cultural thing? For women to leave home at adolescence? It is when you become a woman normally - ie.menstruation starts for most of us. Sorry, tangent.) The goal to obtain experience elsewhere. She travels to the big city with her black cat and her broomstick and sets up a delivery service. Along the way she learns that the only way one can succeed in life is if one believes in oneself. That her magic comes from her faith in herself. This theme reminded me a great deal of the film Serenity, where in one scene a character tells another character - "You need to have belief", and "Why do you always think whenever I mention belief, I'm talking of God?". A theme echoed again in this week's Lost, when Lock tells Jack that sometimes all is needed is a leap of faith.
The other theme in the movie - was the feeling of being disconnected from people, of being an outsider, dressed wrong, awkward, rejected. The movie handles the topic in a realistic and innovative manner, which spoke to me as well as revealed things to me about myself and my own life. I think the degree that we enjoy or connect to something has a great deal to do with how closely it relates to what we are feeling and going through at the moment we experience it, whether that thing be a book, an internet post, a film, a piece of artwork, or a piece of music. It also I think relates to how we respond to it. The themes in this film hit me where I live. Whether or not I'd love this little movie two weeks from now or feel the same way about it a year from now, I could not tell you.
( Contains spoilers for the film, Kiki's Delivery Service )
I recommend the film. It's on DVD, available via netflix. I could not find it in Blockbusters. Not very long.
The only extra worth watching is behind the microphone, where they show how dubbing is done, outside of that, nothing worth noting.
Lovely animated film. Made me cry and smile. It's the story of an apprentice witch who leaves her country village at the age of 13 to learn her craft. It's traditional for witchs to leave home at thirteen (odd age choice - wonder if this a cultural thing? For women to leave home at adolescence? It is when you become a woman normally - ie.menstruation starts for most of us. Sorry, tangent.) The goal to obtain experience elsewhere. She travels to the big city with her black cat and her broomstick and sets up a delivery service. Along the way she learns that the only way one can succeed in life is if one believes in oneself. That her magic comes from her faith in herself. This theme reminded me a great deal of the film Serenity, where in one scene a character tells another character - "You need to have belief", and "Why do you always think whenever I mention belief, I'm talking of God?". A theme echoed again in this week's Lost, when Lock tells Jack that sometimes all is needed is a leap of faith.
The other theme in the movie - was the feeling of being disconnected from people, of being an outsider, dressed wrong, awkward, rejected. The movie handles the topic in a realistic and innovative manner, which spoke to me as well as revealed things to me about myself and my own life. I think the degree that we enjoy or connect to something has a great deal to do with how closely it relates to what we are feeling and going through at the moment we experience it, whether that thing be a book, an internet post, a film, a piece of artwork, or a piece of music. It also I think relates to how we respond to it. The themes in this film hit me where I live. Whether or not I'd love this little movie two weeks from now or feel the same way about it a year from now, I could not tell you.
( Contains spoilers for the film, Kiki's Delivery Service )
I recommend the film. It's on DVD, available via netflix. I could not find it in Blockbusters. Not very long.
The only extra worth watching is behind the microphone, where they show how dubbing is done, outside of that, nothing worth noting.