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HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2004)

It was a Rooney Mara moment.

“They’re embarrassed of each other there, and she stops to look at him and she can’t keep her eyes off him.” — Joe Wright, during director’s commentary of Pride and Prejudice.

Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.

Ki-jung – the facts are she’s the baby in the family, and she does sometimes come off as the most adventurous and progressive, but also very realistic out of the four Kim family members.  But in reality, she’s very saddening, sometimes, and very heart-aching, because the amount of tests and exams, and the cuts that she didn’t make.  She seems like someone who’d never complain about it: Her only outlet was the little pouch that she hid on top of the toilet, with the cigarette case and the money.  But she is definitely someone who would never talk to other people about her problems, and in that sense that’s why it was heartbreaking, because she felt that her only outlet was that cigarette box and nothing else.    But when Ki-jung starts going to the rich house, and takes on the role of Jessica, it was very cathartic as someone who was playing that role, because she was finally able to utilise every single skill that she had, and finally was able to use the tools that she’s been wanting to, but was never given the platform to do so. 

I also believe that you met the King of the Forest, Mei, and meeting him is a sign of good luck.

She’s rich, but still nice. Not “rich, but still nice.”  “Nice because she’s rich.” You know? Hell, if I had all this money. I’d be nice too! Even nicer!

“I LIVE. I DIE. I LIVE AGAIN!”