A weaker movie wouldn't do that. The good guys would be cute and lovable the whole time, the monsters truly monsters
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But the first half of Spirited Away is legitimately horror - she's surrounded by the genuinely monstrous and repulsive
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Miyazaki actually ranks with all your fav horror animators when it comes to building creepy monsters when he chooses to
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But he committed to going the next step with all of them - even that creepy mega glutton baby gets a human moment
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In a Disney movie the No Face would've been the monster and Chihiro saving the frog from being eaten would've made the frog her friend
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Instead the story is that they're both being harmed and when she saves them it's the No Face who gets redeemed
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Keep in mind the whole concept of what the No Face is means that in a Disney movie it would've been an obvious "They have to kill itl
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I'm not saying stuff like Silent Hill shouldn't exist or that Miyazaki's reaction is objective truth, but
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I think it's definitely more than "old man yells at tech"
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Like the disturbing thing is the irresponsibility - they want to put a monster onscreen without ever even having to look through its eyes
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They are proud of their genetic algorithm that let them create a monster without ever inhabiting its own internal POV
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In fact one that guarantees there can't and won't be one, not from the artist or the director or the animator or the mo-cap actor
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The process has been made cost-efficient by excluding all humans who might humanize the monster even by accident
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