What’s so rare and wonderful about Miyazaki’s work, generally, is that while his films often focus on children, the attitude of the movies themselves are never infantilized or childish (well, almost never, sorry “Ponyo”), never pitched down to the audience about things like Kiki’s crisis of confidence when her first “witch delivery services” don’t go to plan.
What’s so rare and wonderful about Miyazaki’s work, generally, is that while his films often focus on children, the attitude of the movies themselves are never infantilized or childish (well, almost never, sorry “Ponyo”), never pitched down to the audience about things like Kiki’s crisis of confidence when her first “witch delivery services” don’t go to plan. There’s a very grown-up compassion that’s as palpable in this movie as the warm sunlight reflecting off the white stones of the buildings.