this was fun to watch and also absolutely beautiful to look at but also this is totally chaotic in a way that i don't expect from Miyazaki. the story felt weirdly disjointed and simultaneously like too much and not enough. Tiny Fey also felt very miscast in the English dub. that being said, this is one of my favorite scores Hisaishi has done!
still very charming and it made laugh a lot even if Ponyo is a sleep paralysis demon :)
dear you,
as of tonight, there are 500 of you.
back in middle school, i used to write letters to an online friend named ellie. her real name was laura, but she went by ellie. sometimes i called her larry, as a joke, and she called me tyler, as a joke.
she had so many names that when we started writing letters to each other, like bonafide pen pals, i'd address them "dear you" -- because sometimes, even when i…
an absolute knockout combination of zionist gal gadot having zero screen presence, directing barely more competent than an undergraduate student thesis film, and the reanimation of the long-dead trope of “woman becomes attractive when she takes off her glasses”—inspiring to me, a woman, that one day i too can walk in heels <3
i was so caught up in my girlboss emotions i almost forgot to mention the incredibly..... eclectic..... score, which ranged from royalty free jazz to ambien-fueled chamber music. beautiful
