Perhaps the best one shot film experience a person can have!

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2012)

First I note that one should watch this film subtitled, while the American dub is rather high quality, it simply doesn't approach the quality of the Japanese voice acting in terms of conveying emotions. The same applies to any other language.
Take one individual, one screen and 125 minutes. What's the best possible experience this individual could have by looking at the screen for 125 minutes? This is the best. Yep, while I could argue there are films one can get a better long experience by watching them over and over, gradually digesting it, the best "one shot" film ever made (that I have seem yet, from the thousands of films I have seem) is this.
The experience I had watching this film for the first time was never equaled by any other film, I could say that only stuff like Beethoven's 9th Symphony had impressed me to a comparable degree. This is not a simple film, it is an spectacle of colors, sounds (with one of the best film scores ever) and emotions. It possesses an immersive power that I didn't though was possible for a film before watching it.
Its sort of like 2001: A Space Odyssey on crack but with much more emotion and characterization. This is truly the best film of the 21st century (while I would put "There Will be Blood" is in a distant 2nd place).
Also, I should note that I had never seem a feature length Japanese animated film before I saw this one. Those that say one needs to "understand" anime before watching this are clearly wrong. However, its true that this film doesn't match the preferences of everyone, specially those Americans that have had their brains programmed by a lifetime watching only American films to only like the canned products of Hollywood.