Spirited Away (2001)
9/10
Forgotten traditions
15 July 2023
This anime is full of strange and interesting symbols, regardless of the history and geography of the story, every nation finds its greatest asset in the culture and traditions of its predecessors. A culture that is the result of years of thought and wisdom of the ancestors of those people, the wisdom that, if understood by the said society, their values will emerge, and this is the way that every nation that becomes aware of its origin will be proud of its culture more than anything else.

In this story, the director and writer cleverly criticized the modern man and tried to wake up his society with artistic twists and present his solutions to heal the soul of his society.

Pigs, a society caught up in the busyness of their daily lives... Yubaba bath, a fusion of Japanese traditions with the West (Yubaba class)... Haku, the symbol of Japan and the paper birds of Japan's enemy planes... Kamaji, the working and manual class who turn the wheel of government... changing the name of Chihiro, modern slavery and taking identity and nationality... the faceless soul, the future generation that still does not know its identity and needs guidance... three smiley faces, the Japanese believe that Every human being has three faces, the face that society sees of him, the face that he shows to his family and his true face when he is alone... and finally "liberation", in Shinto they believe that a person is the meaning of being. To search for, the universe guides him in this journey and this is what happened to Chihiro. After returning from this trip, he finds his identity This is the last flick of the director Miyazaki to the sleeping minds who, like the train passengers with whom Chihiro traveled to cross the river, are trying to find themselves and escape from their self-made prison.
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