Blog Entry 14

Spirited Away

         Spirited Away is a famous Japanese animated fantasy adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and it’s his best movie. In Japan, the movie is called Sen and Chihiro. The film tells a story about a 10 year old little girl, Chihiro’s an incredible advantage on the way in her moving trip. This is my favorite movie because sometimes I just believe that I am actually Chhiro.

          Chihiro looks like an Orphan in the movie who was a survival living in the different world. In fact, she is a Wanderer who finds out herself in the world. In the beginning, she was a little girl who didn’t want to leave past live and her old friends. Even didn’t want to say goodbye to the flowers her friends gave to her. When she entered into the other world, everything has been changed. The first, she lost help from her parents and had to live in the amazing world by having a job. The second, she had to find the way help her parents back to human from pigs. And finally she has to go back to the real world with her parents. There were so difficult but fortunately she got help from Haku, Kamajii, and Yuko. The grand house resorts in the film is a metaphor for temptation, desire, jealousy and exclusion of social reality, Chihiro is actually a just out from the ivory tower, the name actually refers to the initial values. Yubaba took away Chihiro’s name and renamed her as Sen. But as Haku told Chihiro that Yubaba controls her servants by taking their names; if Chihiro forgets her real name, she will be trapped in the spirit world forever. Forgot the name is to forget her principles to environmental changes. Sen and Chihiro are the names of the cast in the two worlds which meaning the two different character of Chihiro. In reality, she was lazy, timid; in another world, she is strong, brave and inspires the unlimited potential.

         The world of Spirited away happens to many immigrants in the US, the movie is just like my past years life. Unfortunately I am not as strong as Chihiro. 8 years ago when I get the JFK airport my life has entered into a totally different world. I left my friends, my hometown and all my past. However, in the new world I forgot my name, my principle and my dream, I had lost myself for years as Chihiro’s parents. I even have no memory as the pig life for the years what I did. Fortunately, I wake up and find a job, that’s the first step that I can live in the world. And then, I started my college life, this is the way I can find out myself again. After all of that, I can go back to my real life and principle, even dreams.