This is my favourite Studio Ghibli movie, as with all Ghibli movies, it is a visual masterpiece, and the designs are so incredibly intricate that only Miyazaki could have directed such a film. The movie follows a woman cursed by a wicked witch, the curse causes her to be turned into an old lady.
This film is inspired by a Welsh fairy tale, and is a masterpiece of a movie. It is constantly inspiring, with visuals which could easily belong to any live action film. This movie, although an eastern animation, has so much movement and life to everything. Eastern animations are often accused of having no movement to them, this and most Ghibli movies, prove this to be wrong, as there is constant life to everything in it, and you really feel that this could be a real world. Some of the visuals and world remind me of a somewhat English setting, which really fits with the theme and original source material. It actually somewhat reminds me of Ethel and Earnest in it's setting, only it is directed much better, and the sense of scale is constantly there. Having gone to the Studio Ghibli museum, I am well aware of how much detail went in to the castle itself, as Miyazaki designed every small detail himself.
It is amazing as well as to how much life there is to the castle itself, and it is great to see how much emotion they managed to pack in to a walking house, when it easily could have been a static design.
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