Miyazaki Hayao will promote "truth, goodness and beauty" in his works. In his animation, the world is very simple. For the characters in anime, "the most important thing" is not money and reputation, but often a beloved person. In Hal's mobile castle, Sophie fell in love with Hal and was turned into an 80-year-old woman by magic. She also took this opportunity to enter Hal's heart and found that he was a lonely child. In the second half of the film, Sophie came to the starry sky in Hal's memory. The ground is covered with small white wildflowers, and meteors pass by. When Hal was a child, he ran out of a small house by the water-this is the moment when Hal opened his heart and expressed his love to Sophie. Through this beautiful picture, what the audience read is not lonely waiting, but persistent and touching love.
The aesthetic pursuit of Miyazaki Hayao's works is "aestheticism". In his cartoons, beautiful pictures are displayed from the background environment to the local customs. But what he pursues is more "truth" and "goodness" in his works. Ugly grannies and witches are beautiful because of kindness, while village women wearing men's clothes have a simple beauty.
Love and anti-war
Hal's Moving Castle continues Miyazaki Hayao's previous style and promotes animation to the height of humanism. In the form of childlike interest, the film entrusts human dreams and nostalgic feelings. In Miyazaki Hayao's film world, despite the different time and space backgrounds, it is the brave girl, the vast sky and the supporting actors that make up the invariable finishing touch, explaining the story themes of "people should live in peace and love" and "anti-war". It is very beautiful to convey the world through movies, and it is worth living and exploring.
Seeing the movie, most girls will be attracted by Hal's handsome charm. In fact, the film wants to focus on Sophie's courage and kindness. Even if she becomes the ugly appearance of the old man, she radiates beautiful light because of her kind and brave heart. The most beautiful movie is in Sophie. Sophie's love and beautiful heart saved Hal and brought peace.
The characters are not so distinct.
Hal's Moving Castle got rid of the helplessness and compromise to reality in Spirited Away and Princess Ghost, and interpreted the hope that "human beings should live in peace and love" under the theme of "anti-war", and conveyed Miyazaki Hayao's idea through the film. However, when Miyazaki Hayao created this film, some of them paid too much attention to the theme. In order to gain magical power, the magician will give up his heart, just like a politician with great power in real life, which implies his unique imagination and leads to many wonderful dialogues and humor. However, the heroine's character is therefore caught in the plot and theme, which is not so clear.
In addition to winning technical or humanities awards at major film festivals, film critics and the media have also paid attention. Empire, a British film reporting magazine, listed Hal's Moving Castle as the 230th among the top 500 films in history. Richard Roper, a critic of the Chicago Sun, affirmed that the film was full of amazing ideas. However, in Japan, Wen Chun magazine has included this cartoon in the list of the Japanese Golden Raspberry Award (the worst film award). The judges of this award think: "The characterization of this film is too flat, not full enough, the narrative is too rough, the dubbing is not satisfactory, and the story lacks appeal. At best, it is just a luxurious visual feast, which is a rare failure without connotation in Miyazaki Hayao's works. "