Spirited Away…
…I‘d like to be.
All day, an orchestral bit from the soundtrack to Hayao Miyazaki’s film, Spirited Away has been looping quietly in my mind. The music is from the part where Chihiro is riding on the train to Swamp Bottom. It is beautiful stuff, both visually and aurally. Not a bad thing to have stuck in your head on a sunny afternoon at the end of June.
It is warmer here, now. Bright.
And I can hear the sound of water.
Blending with the memory of music.
July 19th, 2005 at 1:42 AM
The Train to Swamp Bottom
The music is so sweet and yearning, matched to the dreamlike (and beautiful) imagery it forms one of the most lovely sequences I’ve seen in a movie. I watched Spirited Away again tonight and enjoyed that scene (and the rest)…