If you haven't seen this film, you haven't seen beauty

Rating: 10/10 (8 July 2004)

Spirited Away has got me hooked. It's like a drug, making you see things you've never seen before. Only this is better than any drug in the world, because this film is not making you hallucinate. After seeing this, I wanted to go to this world so much that I've even started writing my own novel based around the same idea: surviving in a beautiful but dangerous world. And unlike most of my ideas for novels, I'VE STUCK WITH IT. What's even more interesting about Spirited Away is that no matter how many times you see this film, you will always see something new in it. And everyone will create different ideas and theories about it. It's about our instincts to survive, friendship, greed, good and evil, innocence of the mind, who and what we are, what our own world is really like, the list goes on. You are not going to like this film, however, if you keep your mind closed to new things. This film has come from a place a long way away from Hollywood. To anyone who's used to Hollywood, this film is going to see very weird. Which is why I love it. Normality is being chucked out the window here, but then one of the things you'll learn from Spirited Away is that there is no such thing as 'normal'. Brilliant. If you're bored with life, or think that all the fun is gone out of it, or wish you could see something extraordinary, SEE THIS FILM AND BE SPIRITED AWAY.