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Spent most of yesterday with yuneicorn, which was quite fun. I made her watch Spirited Away with me, because I just got the DVD (the American one... the Taiwan one is at home, but I wanted the American one because the Taiwan one doesn't have English subtitles, which means I can't sic it on tons of people). I continue to adore the movie, which is my favorite Miyazaki (that's saying a lot, considering how much I adore Miyazaki). I think on rewatching, one of the reasons why it might be my favorite is the whimsical fairy tale nature of the movie; none of the rules quite make sense, and yet, they make a perfect sort of nonsensical sense. And so many of the things just feel fairy-tale-like -- the need to work, the dangers of eating foreign foods, the importance of names, how little actions of kindness spiral away to larger things. It has fairy tale logic, and I love that. Also, I just love all the little details that are in the animation -- Chihiro holding her hair thing in her mouth (something I always do), her bumping her head when trying to stand up, the scene where she's stuffing onigiri in her mouth and crying. I swear, I don't know what it is about that scene, but it's so perfect that I can actually feel the lump you get in your throat while crying and how eating the onigiri is in a sense trying to swallow that. And I love the rain scenes and how I can somehow tell it is still a muggy summer day, despite the rain, and how I know intimately how that feels.

One of my favorite sequences is that long, surreal train ride over an ocean.

Also watched Kill Vill 2, which I did not like so much. I suppose this is not at all surprising, given that I thought the first one was horribly boring and fell asleep during the big fight scene (I was tired!) ( Spoilers )

Am quite excited about seeing Batman tomorrow! Joy joy!