Spirited Away

The storyline of this film completely blew me away I could definitely see a comparison to western animation through this eastern style. I was told in a seminar by Ed Hooks that Miyazaki was asked what the difference between east and western animation? He began to clap his hands and said "the difference between them is the sound inn between the clap which we call mwa, western animations are afraid of adding the in between bits to their consistent point". I could defiantly see what he was say withing the film as there was so many points of the film which excited me and I could see that Miyazaki almost see's beyond a beginning a middle and an end. I can't say I was bored for even a second whilst watching as round every twist and turn I was exhilarated path, as nothing in Miyazaki world was ever what It first seem to be.

Visually the film was enchanting demonstrating a bright an bold colours, stylised using a watercolour look for the backgrounds, his characters drawn in a distinct Japanese style with large eyes with a tiny or extremely large mouth depending on the emotion the character is experiencing. I also like the fact that Miyazaki has kept to the traditional 2D style and feel absolutly no need to result to computer animation which seem rather rare these days as 2D seems to be dying In the west which I feel is an absolute shame.