Spirited Away

We are sitting in a hotel room in Sydney and it's really raining outside. Usually we have a great view of the Sydney Tower but it's impossible to see today through the rain clouds. Last night as we were up till all hours we watched spirited away on Australian TV (unfortunately the dubbed rather than the subtitled version). This is an animated movie from Japan about the adventures of a young girl who gets trapped in a strange Japanese traditional spirit world full of bath houses and priests and witches and other odd stuff. Babsi just said it always makes her cry, and it is a very emotional story. The quality of the animation is just fantastic. Every painted background is a work of art. The motivations of the characters are really strange and otherworldly, you just let yourself go and be taken along by the very strange dreamlike hypnotic story and when the ending eventually comes you'll be just a little sad to leave the spirit world, just like the character.