"I created a hero who is an ordinary girl, someone with whom the audience can sympathize. It's not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish." — Hayao Miyazaki
We're in the middle of Spirited Away, a very bizarre and imaginative Miyazaki movie that has been met with near-universal critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for best animated film in 2002. I think John Lassiter of Pixar wants to marry it, and possibly Miyazaki as well.
Anyhow, Madison was terrified almost from the start; the movie depicts a young girl who becomes separated from her parents after they are turned into pigs, and then becomes lost in a crazy dream-world bath house.
But this morning she couldn't stop talking about it and can't wait to see the rest. Go figure. The magic of Miyazaki.
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