Film Review 1: Spirited Away (2002)

Spirited Away

One of the few movies that I really liked was Spirited Awy (2002). The Japanese Animation, directed by Miyazaki Hayao  is about a small girl who accidentally enters the hotel of mystical creatures because of her parents who turn into pigs after going under evil spells. After volunteering to work for the hotel’s manager, ‘Chihiro’ changes her name to ‘Sen’ and ventures in the middle of Japan’s 2 million gods in order to turn her parents back into humans.

Throughout the movie, Hayao focuses to deliver the messege of growth as Sen/Chihiro deals with countless troubles but gradually learns to deal with them and finally succeeds in escaping from the mystic world she steps into. Hayao also tries to convey the importance of one’s identity, as towards the end of the movie Sen remembers her forgotten name and delightly shouts to Haku, ‘Chihiro, my real name was Chihiro!’