#01.03.2016

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[multsicorn]

Ponyo.  

I liked how weird it was, the juxtaposition of the mad sea scientist's fortress and the numinous sea godess and the very mundane and homey stories of Sousuke and his mom - they all felt like very different registers.  And so them coming together should've felt… more interesting than it did?  But it didn't, because they didn't really clash - though you'd think they would - because the people in-story (and I would guess, the creators, and intended audience too), didn't see them as so different, but as… of course nature spirits and mad scientists share their concerns about what's happening to the world; of course everyone, family and community, accepts a girl turning into a fish and back, and natural almost-disasters, as a matter of mildly interesting incident but nothing that breaks the frame of the world.

Ultimately I think there just wasn't - enough story in the story to satisfy me.  In terms of either conflict or casual chaining from characters' decisions.

Some of the humor and details were great though.  Ponyo's father watering the ground!  The random appearance of ancient fish.  The visuals of the castle, and its mundanity, of the quasi-goddess, and her transcendence, Ponyo's chicken-claw like limbs at first!, and the way the waves transformed into fish and monsters.

The themes were muddled enough - you have to choose one? to keep nature's balance - that I have no comment there.

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