Yi Annie, who often watched Ghipli animation in her childhood, always thought that Gheeli animations were happy fairy tales, but it wasn't until Netflix recently bought the rights to Gheeli animation, and re-watched it from an adult's vision, only to find that these fairy tales are probably exclusive to adults.

Let's not talk about the "retribution" in "Cat's Kindness", in fact, it is actually a self-centered ill-intentioned Elvis Presley, who pretends to satisfy his own selfish desires in the name of repaying his kindness, and wants to take Koharu as his own. Even "Spirited Away", which is the most famous in China, is actually a horror movie in the eyes of many adults.

As the editor of the secret edition, at the beginning of her tenure, Joe, who entered the information of the staff, said in public that "Anne Yi's hobby is watching horror movies" during the plenary meeting of the news center. That's why there's always a local Summertown employee who will discuss horror options with Anne when they're preparing for their Horror Night party.

Once, when Anne was routinely consulting with her colleagues about this, she and her colleagues who came to talk about horror movies began to list each other's names for horror films. As a Chinese, Yi Annie recommended a lot of horror films from the cherry blossom country, such as "Midnight Bell", "Curse", etc., and of course, the popular European and American commercial ghost films "Latent" and "Chainsaw" in recent years.

Judging from the age of this colleague, he should be the same generation as Yi Annie's parents, and the horror films he listed are relatively closer to the category of literary horror films, such as "The Shining" and "Rear Window". After chatting for a while, he added another one, saying that he had recently watched "Spirited Away" with his son.

When Anne Yi says most horror movies, all she thinks about is the Chinese name of the horror film, and when she says the English name of the horror film, she often needs to use Wikipedia to translate. When I heard "spirited away" at this time, I only felt that this movie was familiar, but I couldn't remember its corresponding Chinese title.

The literal translation of "spirited away" can be "the soul is gone", "exorcise evil spirits" and the like, theoretically, Yi Annie should probably have seen this one.

Seeing that Yi Annie didn't remember the content of the movie, the colleague prompted: "There is a plot in the film that turns parents into pigs, which is really terrifying." ”

Hearing this, Anne Yi finally reacted, the Chinese name of "Sprited Away" is called "Spirited Away" ......!

At that time, Yi Annie, who only had childhood memories of "Spirited Away" in her heart, naturally began to refute her colleagues: "How can this film be a horror movie, isn't it a fantasy fairy tale!" And it's still animated! 2D animation! ”

The colleague looked at Yi Annie and shook his head with a smile. Anne knew that her colleague's point of view was that she still thought it was a horror movie.

A few days later, Anne Yi rewatched "Spirited Away" through Netflix, and this time, it may have been ten years since the last time I watched it. Yi Annie bought the genuine disc when "Spirited Away" first won the award, White Dragon, Briquette, Grandpa Boiler, Granny Tang, Granny Qian, and Faceling...... They all left a deep impression on her, and she remembered that she wrote a long review of "Spirited Away" when she was in high school, and it was also published in the school magazine.

But over the years, when Yi Annie crossed the ocean alone, completed her studies, and began to work to earn money to support herself and her master, she rewatched "Grave of the Fireflies", "Porco Rosso", "My Neighbor Totoro", "Hear the Waves", "Howl's Moving Castle", "Cat's Kindness" through Netflix...... But I just haven't rewatched "Spirited Away".

Thinking about it like this, even Yi Annie herself felt very strange.

Maybe "Spirited Away"-style fairy tales aren't her favorite, or maybe it's because she doesn't want to change her childhood perception of the film in the process of rewatching it.

After chatting with her colleagues, Anne Yi finally went home that day and opened "Spirited Away" with Wang Yuxin.

The process of rewatching is actually very pleasant, although the male god Bailong in Yi Annie's childhood is not as handsome as she remembers, she still likes it very much. In this case, looking at this film from the perspective of an adult, I did find a lot of details that I hadn't found before.

At first, Yi Annie guessed that her colleagues thought that "Spirited Away" was a horror movie, and it was naturally the part where Chihiro's parents ate the food of the gods and turned into pigs. My colleague is a parent, and I feel a little sad when I see this, which is really normal. But in fact, the atmosphere at the beginning of this animation is really eerie.

From the very beginning, the shrines that Chihiro and her parents see on their way to move bring the story into a world of fantasy.

Oriental shrines seem to be very strange things to Westerners, in fact, imagine that even if you see these shrines all over the ground in reality or in live-action movies, you will naturally feel very scary, as if you are in a mass grave.

Yi Annie was definitely shocked by this style of painting that was ahead of the times, so she didn't think much about it.

In addition, from time to time, you can see smiling toad face sculptures hidden in the trees on both sides of the mountain road, which also indicates strange religious beliefs. It's just that in the later development of the animation, the interaction between Chihiro and the toad people is very warm, which dilutes the terrifying feeling brought by these sculptures.

At that time, Chihiro's father in the story thought it was an abandoned theme park, but now it's really heartwarming to think about it.

In fact, there are a lot of amusement park horror elements in Hong Kong horror films and some European and American horror films, which is also aimed at the psychological contrast of children who like amusement parks.

After nightfall, the dark shadows in the town are terrifying. But then the heavy rain brought by the river god when he came to bathe made these black shadows more human.

From this point of view, the horror atmosphere in the early stage of the animation is very well shaped, and it is definitely Yi Annie's favorite horror style.

In addition, there is actually a bloody scene in the second half of the animation, where the male protagonist Bai Long sprinkled dragon blood when he was chased by Granny Qian's paper bird in the air, staining the building and the window lattice where Chihiro was located red, which can be regarded as a breakthrough in Yi Annie's memory. She doesn't remember if there was this scene when she watched it as a child, and imagine that if this scene was a live-action scene, it would definitely make people shudder.

The final question and fear came from the ending of "Spirited Away", after rewatching it, Yi Annie asked many people, including several colleagues, about half of them thought that the white dragon was dead, and half felt that the white dragon was alive.

When she was a child, Yi Annie thought that the white dragon must have escaped from Granny Tang's control and went to the outside world to find Chihiro. This time, I think that the white dragon is probably dead. Before, Bailong asked Granny Tang to let Chihiro's parents go, but Granny Tang said that she would wait for Bailong to come back and dismantle him...... When the white dragon finally let go of Chihiro's hand, Yi Annie, who was used to watching horror movies, felt distressed.

At this time, Anne Yi also began to wonder if "Spirited Away" was a horror movie after all, and this emerging idea made her really feel that her childhood was gone, and the more she grew up, the more she thought about it.

This emotion is also seen in many of Ghipli's other animation works.