Last week I saw Howl’s Moving Castle, the
latest anime gem from that “King of animation”
Hayao Miyazaki. Next week I will be experiencing something rather less
enjoyable: my 24th birthday. Each time I contemplate this impending doom I
soothe myself by thinking of Sophie, the inspirational heroine of Miyazaki’s
wonderful film, a mere 18-year-old who is cursed by the evil Witch of the Waste
and transformed into a 90-year-old woman.
Howl’s Moving Castle was described at the 2004 Cannes film festival as being the film
with the biggest “anti-war message”. Miyazaki comments that production started
on Howl at the start of the Iraq war, and that it had a “great impact on them.”
Nigel Andrews from the Financial Times, who met
Miyazaki at the 2005 Venice film festival describes Howl’s
Moving Castle as a
“blend of innocence and apocalypse.”
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