Howl’s Moving Castle-A Different Review(Spoiler)
This is considered one of the great movies of Studio Ghibli. People just know to compare this movie to greatness. So me and my love watched it recently.
Like any Ghibli movie one of the key words a person could use would be ‘odd’ or ‘unique’. It’s about a woman(Sophie) who would very quickly become cursed and looked to almost run away from her old life. No one would understand a girl in her twenties, suddenly in her seventies or more. Part of her curse was not being able to speak about the curse. So the focus of her story would be the rabbit hole she ran full speed ahead into that involved Howl and his strange life.
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Howl as a character is quite odd for a wizard. He had a small fire demon as a close friend. He can change into any creature he can think of. And for some reason there is a boy of maybe nine living in the moving castle and holding his own weight. The odd bit for me was often how kind the characters were. All of them in some way shape or form were kind. Even the witch that turned Sophie would find herself becoming a very warm person. The villain, the queen, would even end the war she was running for almost no reason. “It was time”.
I enjoyed the original nature of the tale, but it was the kindness of all of the characters which made it almost hard to swallow. It’s not a bad movie, obviously, it is simply ‘not my bag’. My wife however, she loved it!
