Howl's Moving Castle
"That was like a dream." said my brother as we climbed in the car after seeing Miyazaki's latest film. An apt description; the sheer amount of creativity and incredible vision Howl's Moving Castle presents is often only available in our dreams. But like our dreams, Miyazaki's movies tend to stop intead of end, leaving us scratching our heads and wondering what it all meant. Attempting to reconstruct the plot into a coherent whole is frustrating and futile. Yet why would we? Are our dreams any less beautiful because they lack a fitting conclusion?
While I prefer watching Studio Ghibli films with the subtitles instead of dubbed voices, I can't imagine seeing Howl's Moving Castle without Billy Crystal's Calcifer. His wry, sarconic delivery perfectly suits the character and, like his performance as Mike Mike Wazowski in Monsters Inc., it just wouldn't be the same without him.
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Compared with other movies, American and non-American made, the movie doesn't have the cliff-hanger that some do, but I still wish there was a sequel that followed the same story line. It was a good ending though, as all fairytales should have that "happily-ever-after" ending.
Ah well.
It's still my favorite movie to this day. =)
He always wants to break out from the ordinary way of thinking, finally results in incredible creativity. I just love how this film was made and how it s always here, in my heart. Even those sountracks just ... miraculous. Nice to know you ^ ^ this is the link to my blog, if you want pass
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Truly smashing film.
And there IS a sequal...to the book. It's "Castle in the Air", which, interestingly enough, is not at all related to Miyazaki's film "Castle in the Sky." I found that really strange.
But in the book, a bunch of the characters from "Howl's Moving Castle" make reappearances.