MIyazaki's Magical Mystery Tour

Rating: 10/10 (9 April 2007)

I would give everything in my life to sustain the feeling I get from watching the minute and a half sequence of Chihiro taking the ghost train submerged in water... You know what I'm talking about. This moment is one of the most special I've ever seen, it evokes a mystical feeling deep inside myself, and it's a feeling that I might live for. It's a carefully orchestrated affair, this moment could only work after experiencing the hour that came before, in the key that came before, everything about this minute, from the music, the subtle taint of computer animation, to the magical imagery might be what Werner Herzog means when he talks about 'an ecstatic truth'. Not many films achieve this moment, and it is incredibly hard to define, but it strikes deep in a person's core, in his soul...