"Alicia in Wonderland", a little more Mystical and Japanese

Rating: 10/10 (18 November 2007)

Imagine "Alicia in Wonderland". Take the color and the childish, funny, motivated characters. Replace them by internal conflicts, by mystery and evil, and magic. It is a trip, which draws your attention into an examination of onirical places beautifully colored by the master hand of Hayao Miyazaki. Chihiro is a mind trip, with amazing scenes and comfortable drawings. The story exhumes a soft music, the characters a human delight. Compare the Witch Yubbaba to the Alicia's clowny Queen of the Cards, then you can have a clue of the profoundity this movie breaths. A little bit with many innuendos and cut messages; Japanese films have much to teach us. Sayonara Chihiro, we learned.