Howl’s Moving Castle (film)
In a world beyond of each times and each physic rule, a young girl, Sophie sees to upset her monotonous and quite life by two characters, somewhat strange an enchanting as mysterious wizard and an horrible and powerful witch.
I won’t escape nevermore, because now I have found someone to protect and that someone are you Sophie…
The first, save her from the tiresome attentions of two soldiers, involves her in the escape, to disappear as he had appeared, the second, peeved by the attention of the young wizard for the girl, decides to curse her, doing to age the girl instantly, and transforming she in a old woman of 90 years old. The girl, at first wit and incredulous, succeeds to get courage and she decides to abandon her home to go to search the witch to obligate her to dissolve the curse, ignoring the cause of so much hate in her confronts and felling herself as a victim of an absurd mistaken.
In the travel toward the moors where the witch should stay.
Sophie meets a strange scarecrow, that at her time, will conduce her in front of a bing and bizarre moving castle inside which she, although the first distrust, will decide to enter.
The real story starts from here: the our protagonist will discover that the master of the castle, isn’t other that the young wizard met some days ago, and that the castle, in which she has entered, represents the her shelter from all and everyone, a place where she can rests after a continuing and exhausting escape. Going on with the event the old woman Sophie grows fond of the citizens of that strange home and, knowing better this egocentric and fascinating wizard, she discovers as they are similar, deciding so, at the finally to take her life in the hand, winning her cursed, but above all giving all herself to save the man who she falls in love.
Mainly Hayao Miyazaki presents to us a sweet and simple love story: two boys by now incapable to manage their life, who for resignation who for irresponsibility, they finds one on the other a cause to live, to give a sense to their existence and to searching to face that the life put in front of them. To all that, an absurd war adds itself, which Howl is obligated to participate, the witch of the moors, who ,to the last, will not leave the wizard’s heart and the Sophie cursed, that will create many problems to the protagonist.
I must to say that the event rhythm is some slow, at the start, but little by little, the different characters are ‘revealed’, and the spectator begins to wonder what is hid by the face so eccentric and vain of Howl mask that Sophie will crumble step by step showing to us the wizard as he is really.
The animation much singing, the “fairy-tale” backgrounds and the sweet music accentuate the sensation to be been ejected in a world totally different by the our world, where the “fire” can say, one of the scarecrows can transform itself in a beauty prince and a castle can walk turning all the world!
Hayao Miyazaki ,being based on the novel of Diana Wynne Jones, propose to us a sweet as extravagant fable, that will not be lacking to excite and dream to you this little frightening but wonderful world.
