No matter how many times you re - watchSpirited Away(2001 ) , some facial expression of Hayao Miyazaki ’s animated classic will always remain a enigma . chirrup user@0910nonchawasn’t content with consent this as part of the motion picture ’s fantastical magical spell . So theSpirited Awayfan wrote to brio house Studio Ghibli with some questions , and received a detailed missive back addressing each one , Rocket News 24reports .
Three big questions were stupefy in the initial letter : Why did Chihiro ’s parents flex into pigs ? What was the intellectual nourishment they ate that made it happen ? And how was Chihiro capable to happen her final trial ?
A Studio Ghibli employee save back say that the transformation of Chihiro ’s parent was meant to symbolize greed . Miyazaki reportedly cited the greed he see during Japan ’s recess in the eighties as his inspiration for the metaphor . As the varsity letter point , when someone becomes a cop in the moving picture , he or she eventually develops the “ physical structure and individual of a pig ” or else of turning back into a human . The respondent explained that this applies to greed in the real worldly concern as well as in the phantasy realm .
One of the movie ’s greatest mysteries comes at the end , when Chihiro guesses aright that none of the pigs she ’s present with are her parents . According to the alphabetic character , she was able to do so using “ special abilities ” obtain in the spirit world :
The writer explains that Chihiro ’s journeying to rein in this so - call “ DOE to live on ” by confronting her fears create up the core of the film .
The remaining question about what food turn over Chihiro ’s parent into pigs still remains a bit of a whodunit . The employee writes : “ It ’s not in reality made clear what the food for thought is — it ’s just ‘ very delicious , ’ ” then goes on to hint that the feast was possibly laid out on design as a trick to tempt man who had lost their manner .
While some filmmakers are hesitating to explicate their workplace after it has been relinquish , Miyazaki and the rest of Studio Ghibli have been specially generous to fans . in the first place this twelvemonth , the film director confirmed a long - heldfan theoryabout his 1997 moving picture , Princess Mononoke . Hopefully these tidbits will be enough to sustain devotee on the off - chance that Miyazaki everretires for good .
[ h / tRocket News 24 ]
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