And another way that Studio Ghibli wins? Characters are allowed to be nuanced! Look at Lady Eboshi. Good guy? Bad guy? Neither, because it's not about good guys or bad guys. Actions are good or bad, and motives are good or bad, but *characters* are allowed to be both.
I really loved the minions in the first movie--too bad they muffed it in the sequel.
I saw someone else's pointful critique of the sequel: she said that one big problem was that whereas the first movie showed the beauty, and possibility for success--of a created family, a family of choice--the sequel embraces the notion that the girls can't be happy without a mother in their lives--that somehow their family is wanting as it is because there's no mother.
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Date: 2013-07-15 05:43 pm (UTC)I really loved the minions in the first movie--too bad they muffed it in the sequel.
I saw someone else's pointful critique of the sequel: she said that one big problem was that whereas the first movie showed the beauty, and possibility for success--of a created family, a family of choice--the sequel embraces the notion that the girls can't be happy without a mother in their lives--that somehow their family is wanting as it is because there's no mother.