liturgical drama.
Watched Howl's Moving Castle the other day. Amazing movie. Wonderful.

But there is one detail I have to mention -- it's NOTHING like the book. The witch of the waste? Genuine villain. Soliman? Dude. Most importantly, though, there's no war in the book. It's this giant Miyazaki antiwar theme coming in, and I'm pretty sure it didn't need to be there.

I think it's kind of funny, myself -- I thought as I was reading the book that it'd be the perfect Miyazaki film, but now I see that it didn't give him a chance to work his themes in. And I would have been okay with that. I didn't think that was too much to hope for. He's been saying the same thing for thirty years; you'd expect him to be satisfied and move on to something else.

But really, it's a great, riveting, compelling movie. It's hard to believe I waited this long to watch it.

. . .

I also watched Mirrormask, and it's so good that I don't feel I need to say anything about it.