Friday, April 29, 2016

Extra Credit Blog



[14] Like Alice in Wonderland who falls through a rabbit hole into a strange realm, or Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz who follows the yellow brick road, Chihiro together with her parents walks through a tunnel-like passage,9 across a dry river bed, into a realm characterized by disorientation, ambiguity and a sense of otherness.  For an engaged audience, the film itself, through its own artistry, can effect a sense of disorientation and liminal space.
            The first quote that I am looking at is the quote above that explains the “hallucinations” that Chihiro faced during her time when she walked through the tunnel with her family and that was when it started to happen. Just like it mentioned in the quote above about other characters like Alice in Wonderland and Dorothy from Wizard of Oz they too experienced not the same as Chihiro but similar in the way that all three of them didn’t know what was happening and how they got there and what they needed to do to get out. They all experienced a different world that wasn’t seen as normal because there were strange things going on. What I did enjoy about all these is that they were all interesting in different ways and the disorientation of them all gave a different aspect and look on things. They also all had double or more meanings that we don’t know about until we watch it again for a second or third time.
[2] Spirited Away is the story of a young Japanese girl named Chihiro, who, with her parents, is moving to a new city to live.  The first scene shows Chihiro sulking in the back seat of the car when her father takes the wrong road as they approach their new house.
            This next quote I liked because watching the movie I felt Chihiro’s “pain” or like upset because we have all experienced a time in a car ride and when one of our parents take the wrong turn its like we get so mad because now its going to take longer to get home. But watching this scene they ended up at a dead end and found a tunnel that they could only go through by walking and not driving. Chihiro was scared to go through the tunnel because she didn’t know what was on the other side and that reminds me of like when we have taken a wrong turn and its really dark out and me and my sisters are all always so scared making up scary stories to tell each other.
[10] The reason for this is that although we are grounded in this pervasive vital process, we are too often unable to connect with it.  Like a mirror covered with dust, the disposition of our personality, i.e., our kokoro, becomes clouded and opaque. Just as aspects of nature can become polluted -- a river can become dirty and foul-smelling -- so also the interior conditions of the human heart and mind can lack a sense of freshness and vitality.  When so polluted, we do things poorly and sloppily; our kokoro hardens and we turn in on ourselves -- the way children do when they sulk and refuse to openly and politely relate to others.
          I agree with this quote completely because everything that it is saying is true in a way. I like the part where it says a human heart and mind can lack a sense of freshness and vitality. And when we do things incorrect or badly we are like hurting or polluting ourselves as it says in the quote. An example of this is like when we are in a bad mood about something and we are around our friends or other people and we just get mad at them too even though they didn’t do anything. We just let it carry over to others and we aren’t nice to them at the time.

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