Jun
24
Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004, Japan) AKA Spirit in the Sky
A cheshire-grinning cat turns into a flying bus. A WW II Italian flyboy morphs into a crimson-coloured porcine aviator. The corpses of a herd of gigantic wart hog Gods pile upon each other like death camp victims. People who turn a casual glance the way of the works of the world’s greatest animator, Harao Miyazaki, often find things so far outside their ken that they are tempted to dismiss it all as the arbitrary hallucinatory emanations of an inscrutable animator. However, a deeper look will show that running through all, even the most surreal, of Miyazaki’s work is an abiding humanism as well as a deep-seated belief in the sanctity of life on this planet in all its forms.
A cheshire-grinning cat turns into a flying bus. A WW II Italian flyboy morphs into a crimson-coloured porcine aviator. The corpses of a herd of gigantic wart hog Gods pile upon each other like death camp victims. People who turn a casual glance the way of the works of the world’s greatest animator, Harao Miyazaki, often find things so far outside their ken that they are tempted to dismiss it all as the arbitrary hallucinatory emanations of an inscrutable animator. However, a deeper look will show that running through all, even the most surreal, of Miyazaki’s work is an abiding humanism as well as a deep-seated belief in the sanctity of life on this planet in all its forms.
