Go to hell Disney!

Rating: 10/10 (4 April 2013)

Roll over Walt Disney, Miyazaki is a genius and an original auteur, with a penchant for uncovering the human conscience through thought provoking characters, who subvert in every shape and form, their stereotype.
Spirited Away's visceral pleasure derives from the lush iconography, and the poetic expression of the down to earth characters. Yet it pushes the boundaries of cinema. Godard might describe this as a dull, populist drug, with one purpose- pleasure, but this film provokes thematic issues that plague the everyday world. Themes of the environment, water, coming-of age, the imagination, and history merging with the present, stitch the viewer into a sublime world, which makes us reconsider our own.
A masterpiece of Japanese cinema, when the search for the 21st century Citizen Kane begins, I will sit the masses down, and point towards Spirited Away.