@deanduncan63Saw #TheSecretWorldofArriety. Don’t you love the Catholicism of his sources? Which he respects, & feels quite free to utterly transform …
… Mary Norton’s English original, charmingly fussy, flinching even, still (’52) reflecting the trauma that led to those uncertain qualities …
… is much expanded, here becoming a lovely encouragement for youth, w’ all its courageous inexperience, to encounter, to engage, to change, to live.
#TheSecretWorldofArriety tells parents, w’ deep love & appreciation, that they are sometimes a real drag!
#TheSecretWorldofArriety. Miyazaki makes kid movies, which also hint at & even outright address the most adult of things …
… The 1st meeting between this Borrower girl & this full-sized boy is as luminously, rapturously sensual an exchange as I can even think of, in the movies …
… It’s chaste, mind, completely circumspect at the same time that it hints at & celebrates our profoundest & most joyful potentials. So great! …
… And so very healthy.
#TheSecretWorldofArriety. I’m being all Miyazaki here, aren’t I? This film was directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi …
… who worked w’ a number of other dedicated & skillful collaborators, who all deserve credit & acknowledgment.