Secret delivery kiki movie#
I cannot compare the movie to the book, as I never read it - but in terms of the style of fantasy children’s books, I love that Kiki’s does a fantastic job of mixing in magic with growing up in the way of my childhood favourites.
Willems mentioned on Twitter a while ago, the fact that Kiki’s still ends with a thrilling blimp sequence despite its lack of conflict! Most incredibly, Kiki’s is a relatively conflict-free adventure where the stakes are happiness and communal love rather than the fate of the world: I wish more SFF movies would take their time to tell stories without villains or violence. In a very different way to Laputa or Cagliostro, Miyazaki once again captures the joy of escapism, this time mixed with a healthy dollop of bildungsroman. Still, I think Kiki’s speaks to me a little bit more than Totoro simply for its proximity to old European fantasy stories (even though the book it is based on was written in Japan). This is a pattern followed by the early Pixar films, the first half of the Disney Renaissance, and only a few other filmographies: the movies are so excellent, so full of life, so generous and enjoyable that there is really no point in arguing which is better or worse. A podcast I’m a big fan of, Blank Check with Griffin and David, is going through the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki, so before I listen to each episode I want to get my own bloggorific thoughts written down here.įive movies into his time as a feature film director, and in my opinion Miyazaki is still topping himself.
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