"A heart's a heavy burden."

"It's time to put an end to this idiotic war."

A really pleasant movie. A brilliant juxataposition of war and peace.
Hayao Miyazaki, blending the magical and the real, masterfully, again.

This movie is based on a Western Novel, is set in the West, is filled
with Western characters, but is done in, and by, Japanese, and yet one
forgets this by the time the movie is over. Kinda' makes me wish for
more similar cross-cultural adaptations.

Absolutely worth watching.

[18 August 2024]