A CHARMING LITTLE FILM FOR KIDS
“Ponyo loves Sosuke!”
Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea is a 2008 Japanese animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki (world-famous for his magnificent animations like Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro and Princess Mononoke) and is certainly one of the sweetest animated films you’ll ever see.
Ponyo is a fish who yearns to be human while Sosuke is a five year old boy who rescued her when she tried to swim ashore and got caught inside a jar. Ponyo licks the blood off Sosuke’s little wound and it helps her turn into a little girl. Unfortunately, her sorcerer father tracks her down and brings her back to the sea.
The scene where Ponyo is reunited with Sosuke is priceless. She jumps off a big fish, stares at him with wide, excited eyes, unmindful of everything around her including a raging storm, while he is stupefied, she runs to him, leaps towards him and embraces him tightly.
You’ll thank whoever invented cinema for that scene.
There are no villains in this film (actually, there are no villains in most of Miyazaki’s films), there are no people scheming against each other, hurting each other, no gluttonous government officials obsessed with expensive meals, no second-rate film director stealing an award he doesn’t deserve, no arrogant TV host who hates funerals , just a cute little fish/girl, a caring young boy and the sea.
Do your kids a favor, let them watch this beautiful film.
And oh, watch the Japanese (with subtitles, of course), not the English-dubbed version, for purity’s sake.
Ponyo is a fish who yearns to be human while Sosuke is a five year old boy who rescued her when she tried to swim ashore and got caught inside a jar. Ponyo licks the blood off Sosuke’s little wound and it helps her turn into a little girl. Unfortunately, her sorcerer father tracks her down and brings her back to the sea.
The scene where Ponyo is reunited with Sosuke is priceless. She jumps off a big fish, stares at him with wide, excited eyes, unmindful of everything around her including a raging storm, while he is stupefied, she runs to him, leaps towards him and embraces him tightly.
You’ll thank whoever invented cinema for that scene.
There are no villains in this film (actually, there are no villains in most of Miyazaki’s films), there are no people scheming against each other, hurting each other, no gluttonous government officials obsessed with expensive meals, no second-rate film director stealing an award he doesn’t deserve, no arrogant TV host who hates funerals , just a cute little fish/girl, a caring young boy and the sea.
Do your kids a favor, let them watch this beautiful film.
And oh, watch the Japanese (with subtitles, of course), not the English-dubbed version, for purity’s sake.
Comments
Mali ang title mo, Ron.
Actually, ang talagang titulo nito ay ganito:
Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea
Lord, Deliver the Fish from Evil!