Posted by clare on Fri 12 Feb 10, 9:18 PM to clare's blog.
I've just been to see Ponyo and am left with a warm glowy feeling. It hit so many memories for me. Not only did I used to spend hours and hours on my own in the front room engrossed in drawing complicated deep sea felt tip pen panoromas (not quite to Ghibli standard) but I actually played the role of a goldfish from Caesar's pond in a school play - so I identified strongly with the lead character.
Not only, but also. I have a badly hidden Brunhilde complex. So much giggling when Miyazaki turns the the goldfish heroine into Brunhilde, isolated by Wotan/Poseidon by a bubble that could only be broken by a kiss, in place of the ring of fire. The ride of the Valkyres became a shoal of goldfish. It's extremely funny.
No spoilers in saying that it ends in love and redemption. This is a film to watch with your Daddies.
Edited Fri 12 Feb 10, 9:28 PM by clare
| 12 Feb 10, 10:44 PM Malbon UK(LS), 8 yrs   |
Anything by the great man deserves attention, although this does seem in some ways aimed at a younger age group than Mononoke, Spirited Away, or Howl's Moving Castle. Do I detect a certain creeping Disneyfication in the trailer? Who cares, perhaps I will take the Dolly to see it, she would probably enjoy it more than bloody George Clooney. Paku paku chuggu! A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. Edited 12 Feb 10, 10:47 PM by Malbon |
| 12 Feb 10, 11:04 PM clare 11 yrs |
Not sure about the trailer as I haven't seen it. I think the trailer and Disney distributed version is the English dubbed version with Cate Blanchette? I saw the Japanese version with subtitles so not sure how the Disney voice overs affected it. I'm guessing that I wouldn't have liked it.
It is less dark than Spirited Away and Howell's Moving Castle but if you need grown up things in your fairy tales, there they are: the father's reluctance to allow his little girl to mature, literally squishing her down into her immature form, incarcerating her to prevent it, the deluge wiping out the filth of the earth, the courageous wife and so on. Some adults just still enjoy children things. |
