The tale from Earthsea

As a one of Studio Ghibli fan I felt like watching their latest movie "the tale from Earthsea" although I'd never heard any positive critics about that. Luckily my friend got the ticket for me and we went to watch the movie without any anticipation. I've read the original books but it was really long long time ago and I don't remember any main story of the book (some parts I remember are only episodes like everyone has true name and this one shouldn't revealed to others without discretion, and the main character Sparrowhawk got his first girlfriend in his late years). But this ignorance of the original story did good to me this time (scarce movies are better than the original novels they are based. like Harry Potter or Da Vinci Code. The lord of the rings is the only exception) as you can accept the movie as it is.

As a conclusion first I kinda liked this movie (contrary to the fact most of the ppl rated this movie like 2~5 out of 10). If you like movies which have black and white clearly like Disney movies, this isn't for you. There are so many parts like ??? in this movie and as they tried to condense everything in 2 hours show time you won't understand many details (like "is Tehanu the dragon?", "Is she dead or not?" or "Did Allen kill his father because of the effect of the world being destroyed?"). but you don't have to get obvious answers for everything (for the same reason one of my favorite movier is "Mulholland Dr". You've got to check it out!).
It is fun thing that you can have your own interpretation of the movie which can be different from others and in most of that kind of movies you'll have nice fuzzy feeling which is called afterglow.
As it contains many characters it seems complicated but the theme from this movie is really clear, "Seize the day","Denying death equals to denying life". Some of you maybe be annoyed by its lines cause they keep saying "Live! Life is important!" but you'll easily understand what they wanted to tell you in this movie.
So I rate this movie around 7.5.

まあやはり絵も歌も綺麗だしね。怖い描写も従来よりちょっと増えていてある意味いわゆるオタク系の人のほうが好む映画かもと思った。
声優を担当した田中裕子さんも含めてクモ役が良い。菅原文太も合っていた。風吹ジュンがちょっと舌がまわってない気が・・・テルー役も声はいいけどちょっと棒読みかなあ。まあ歌がよいから許す。