Spirited Away

Film Related to class:  This film's animation is a far cry form the first animation back in the day.  The animation was very realistic even though it was in an anime style.  There was a scene were Chihiro was looking out the window before she arrived at the amusement park, the trees were moving in a natural way.  The depth of the scene was very accurate to real life.  The physics of the characters were also very realistic.  Sometimes in animation the ground will move too fast or zoo slow as someone or something walks over it.  When Haku was a dragon, his movements were very fluid and natural as well.  He flew and ran into walls, but nothing seemed unnatural out out of place.  Also when characters jumped they did not rise or gal too fast.  This made it very easy to watch the film because there were no awkward movements that would distract the viewer from the story. 

Article Summary:  ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/SpiritedAway )  The article mentions the complexity of the films's plot.  Within the first half hour a multitude of things happen.  Chihiro was traveling to her new home and then her parents were turned into pigs, she was stuck in the spired world, met a man with multiple limbs and was put to work by her huge headed new boss.  Spirited away reached high acclaim when it won an oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.

Article Related to Film:  This film was extremely popular.  It was reflected in their aware at the Oscars.  It is the only anime film that has ever won.  This helps solidify its epic status.  The award makes sure that this film is not only know for its animation.  The animation is great, but it won the award for animated film.  This rewards the movie's plot, and not its animation.  The movie may have had great animation, but this award is proof that it was an all around great film.

Critical Analysis:  I am not a fan anime at all but I suppose I cannot say anything bad about this film considering how much praise it has received.  I am not a fan of very fanciful movies like this one, but I did think the complexity of the plot.  Even if someone does not like anime, or could not figure out what the movie was about at all, could still be entertained for the entire film.  I am not totally sure about what the deeper meaning of this film was about but it seemed to me to be about nature.  How people are destroying nature and that all of their spirits are now sunned to an abandoned theme park.  I liked the deeper message to tho movie, if that was actually the deeper meaning or not.  I think that it was just subtle enough to not be completely obvious, but just deep enough that you had to to some figuring out.  The animation was very seamless as I mentioned before, but the constant action and plot is what really did it for me.