By JON HOCHSCHARTNER--
When I first saw “Spirited Away”, a 2001 animated film, I watched it with my then six year old sister, and was expecting typical children’s fare. Not so. It’s a surreal, often disturbing fantasy, in which a young girl visits an abandoned amusement park with her parents. There, her mother and father are literally transformed into pigs, and she is forced to take refuge in an enchanted bathhouse where strange creatures come to wash. She takes a job alongside an aged six armed man, and a toweringly monstrous baby, as she tries to return her parents to their human state. Drawn by hand and with a perfect English dubbing, “Spirited Away” is a richly imagined, beautifully rendered film by writer/director Hayao Miyazaki. Give it a try.
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