Better than Spirited Way
Mar.28, 2006, filed under Miscellany
Howl’s Moving Castle is fab! This could simply be because there aren’t any squealing children in it, although I think it’s because I liked Calcifer and Howl turns into what is fundamentally a big crow. I also liked the way Sophie just got on with being an old woman and didn’t whinge about it too much. I liked the scarecrow and, in fact, I liked everything about it except for the weak and sugary-sweet ending.
I liked the way that, from about the middle of the film on, Sophie would apparently randomly switch betwen being old and being her normal self, and the pattern of why this was slowly revealed itself. I liked the vision of the warring states, the blend of unfeasible technology with magic.
Only one other issue, apart from the ending: the presence of a strange icon that looked like a movie camera with 1/2 written underneath in the top right corner of the screen, which I could not switch off.
More than made up for The Hills Have Eyes.
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~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
