The Boy and the Heron (2023) dir. Hayao Miyazaki. 君たちはどう生きるか(2023) dir. 宮崎 駿. 7.4/10

I wouldn't recommend this movie to my friends. I wouldn't rewatch this movie.

The blurring animation during the fire was new.

What kinda contraption was Mahito drinking water out of in his room? I kinda like it for no reason. These parakeets are cute. I like them, i support them.

I didn't really care for the pelicans and the cute white blob creatures. I didn't feel any of the etherealness that I usually do with Ghibli movies.

Show me what the parakeets packed with them back to our normal world. I want to know. Someone tell me why the heron is built like that?

Hiba Abu Nada, from I Grant You Refuge (trans. Huda Fakhreddine)

5. I grant you refuge from hurt and suffering.

With words of sacred scripture I shield the oranges from the sting of phosphorus and the shades of cloud from the smog.

I grant you refuge in knowing that the dust will clear, and they who fell in love and died together will one day laugh.

Andrew McMillan, from Pandemonium; “george”