Apparently the tags work once you quote the message, how odd
@Daz said in Studio Ghibli thread:
Finally got around to watching the Boy and th Heron, which was a very frustrating watch for me.
The first chunk was fine enough, even if I found it extremely indulgently paced - the animation is great, but I do not need to see every little motion of pouring tea and walking across a room or whatnot.
But I just could not make heads or tails of the movies' second half. And I don't mean in ters of "logical sense" or "the rules of the world" or stuff like that, I mean in terms of character motivation and goals, how we were supposed to view certain characters, the thematic throughline, what the stakes were, if there really were any...I was constantly on the back foot, trying to make things connect to each other somewhat.
And I know Miyazaki movies usually have a dreamlike quality about them, I've seen them all, but I don't have this issue in (most of) his other films. Spirited Away is full of unexplained magic, but I can track goals, and character dynamics, and growth and themes...I see a lot of people extracting meaning from Heron by juxtaposing it with Miyazakis own life, but without deep knowledge of that it felt really flat for me.
