Many people consider them to be ill-mannered and baring no respect for their elders or their forefathers. There's a certain sense of revile about the youth of Japan at the moment. Through Chihiro, Miyazaki is clearly (but non-patronisingly) talking to youth of Japan. Of course, by giving the audience developed characters to care about, the action and conflicts will always be more exciting, terrifying and uplifting than normal, generic action scenes. The uplifting scene where she cleanses the River God is accompanied by stirring music and is as exciting as watching gladiatorial combatants fight. Miyazaki treats the modest achievements of Chihiro with unashamed bombast. Twenty minutes into this film and I completely forgot these were animated characters I started to care for them like they were living and breathing. He infixes his animated actors with such subtleties that I have never seen, even from animation giants Pixar. Miyazaki lingers upon the characters as if they were actors. The fact that this place is amazing doesn't seem to concern Miyazaki. Places and buildings are not greeted by towering establishing shots and majestic music. The inhabitants of the world go about their daily business as usual as full with apathy as us normal folks. The world is filmed just like our workaday world would. But Miyazaki doesn't seem to treat this world as something amazing. We discover the world as Chihiro does and it's truly amazing to watch. During the first fifteen minutes we have no idea what is going on. Miyazaki does this brilliantly in 'Spirited Away'. A hallmark of a good storyteller is making the audience empathise or pull them into the shoes of the central character. 'Spirited Away' is the first Miyazaki I have seen, but from this stupendous film I can tell he is a master storyteller.
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