During the first Family Day long weekend, we watched The Children Who Chased Lost Voices from Deep Below or Journey to Agartha 追逐繁星的孩子. The kids started running away whenever Iroku revealed themselves. Iroku is the creature made of remains of passive thoughts from human who lived in the underworld of Agartha. To me it is so beautifully made -- the rich texture of the underworld city (inspired by the Tibetan and other cultures) and natural landscape and the stars.
The intensity of Asuna and Mr. Morisaki's desire to reunite with their lost loved ones is moving -- the never-ending question of the distance between human minds, the loss, and the gap of life and death that human beings have to face living in this world.
I also really like the mountain town in which Asuna lives -- makes me nostalgic for the days when factories and pollution didn't take over.
The kids are a bit perplexed. The younger one keeps wondering about what is what, esp. the loss Mr. Morisaki had to face. But it was to be expected that if you ask for something that is not supposed to be and doesn't belong to you, you pay a price. That's why Asuna, the best of all of us, had to learn to say goodbye, is it? Going on a journey to reconcile with the past and loss in this film is special for the world underneath us.
The 6-yr-old said he was scared when people died, like the first boy. The 8-yr-old doesn't like it because it's bloody with beautiful pictures, not her kind of movie. She likes peaceful movies.
I also really like the mountain town in which Asuna lives -- makes me nostalgic for the days when factories and pollution didn't take over.
The kids are a bit perplexed. The younger one keeps wondering about what is what, esp. the loss Mr. Morisaki had to face. But it was to be expected that if you ask for something that is not supposed to be and doesn't belong to you, you pay a price. That's why Asuna, the best of all of us, had to learn to say goodbye, is it? Going on a journey to reconcile with the past and loss in this film is special for the world underneath us.
The 6-yr-old said he was scared when people died, like the first boy. The 8-yr-old doesn't like it because it's bloody with beautiful pictures, not her kind of movie. She likes peaceful movies.
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