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//__Howl's moving castle Film Review __// Howl's Moving Castle ( ハウルの動く城 , Hauru no Ugoku Shiro) is a 2004 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli and based on Diana Wynne Jones' novel of the same name. The genre of the film is romantic and 119 minutes long, it first released in the world premiere on 5th September, 2004 and released on 15th June, 2005 in Australia. Mamoru Hosoda, director of one season and two movies from the Digimon series, was originally selected to direct but abruptly left the project, leaving the then-retired Miyazaki to take up the director's role. Miyazaki is a really good director, he direct many animated the most popular animated of him is ‘spirited away’.

The main protagonists in this movie are two young energetic people Sophia and Howl, one day when Sophia was walking to her sister’s shop she met Howl and Howl help her a lot, after she met Howl at the night a witch of the waste went to her shop and cursed her to be a 90 years old grandma, she knows that she can’t stay at her country anymore because all of a sudden she became a 90 years women, then the story started… … I think the success point of ‘Howl’s moving castle’ is beautiful graphic, epic music and the description of the characters. In every film that directed by Miyazaki also success on these, the background of the is really beautiful and make me feel like I’m in the fantasy world, graphic is really important and the design of the character is good as well, we can know their personality from their clothes, for example Sophia always acts like an old person, so her clothes are really normal or count as ugly. The movie descript the characters really well, Sophia became the old grandma because she has old personality, I guess that the power of the curse is change the person’s look to her physical ages, after she met Howl she found out what is love and starting to act like a young girl.

The music that used in this movie shows the love of two main characters, Howls and Sophia. From this piece you can feel the love, tranquil, harmonious, serenity and gentle. This clearly shows the portrayal of Holws and sophina quiet but peaceful life. There are many instruments play in this movie, the main instrument are violin, flute and cornet. Cornet play the main melody, violin and flute play the harmony and rhythm. All the instruments gradually enter one by one as the movie story line goes further.

I love this movie because of everything in it. It caught my heart by the really good storyline and epic graphics. I really want to recommend it to everyone, i prefer teenagers and child to watch this film especially lovers. 'Howl's moving castle' includes many interesting elements that people will like it, magic, love and fantasy, i think no one wouldn't love this film, this is the best animation in my heart,