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He Wants Movie Analysis

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Miyazaki brings us back to Meiji Japan by sending the protagonist, who was born in contemporary times, to modern Japan that is Chihiro. Chihiro, a ten-year-old apathetic girl, moved from town to countryside with her family. While they drive into their new home, they walk into a covered garden called Yuya. This is actually an entertainment center built in the spiritual world by a greedy wizard, Yubaba. With the witch's curse, Chihiro's parents turned into a pig, and Chihiro had to work as a laborer in Yuya for Save them. In Yuya, he meets a mysterious boy named Haku, and with his help, the girl who initially apathetic is now learning to face the challenges of the spirit world. The picture above is Yuya which is a hot water bath built by the witch Yubaba. Miyazaki forms a Yuya structure that …show more content…

While parents are usually responsible for keeping families by exchanging their labor with money for their needs, Chihiro's parents are cursed by Yubaba in the film. By forcing Chihiro to trade his business with what he wants, the film represents Chihiro as a worker from the working class, a child whose childhood has been stolen from him. In the example that makes the working equation from Miyazaki's perspective with the slavery of wages, in one scene Chihiro meets with Kamajii, the boiler man (boiler), who introduces himself as "the slave heating the bath." Since the whole bath is owned and managed by Yubaba, it means that he is a slave of Yubaba. In addition, Kamajii has six arms to operate a boiler that shows itself as a new engine that allows the minimization of paid employees - unlike the robots contained in the production system. While Chihiro works, another female worker named Rin gives him food and clothing provided by Yuya, and at other times, we see Kamajii sleeping there at his workplace. This gesture indicates Yuya gives him shelter and food only when

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