Kiki's delivery service

It was supposed to be any movie but no, we’re talking here about Studio Ghibli and that is a great deal. If you don’t know anything about this Studio I recommend it to you fervently. It’s like the other side of Walt Disney and its princesses.  

Kiki is a trainee witch and as is traditional now she’s thirteen years old must leave her house for an entire year for learning more on her own in another city which it hasn’t any witch living there. Kiki has a black cat named Jiji and she goes away flying on her broomstick to the port city of Koriko.

Kiki is a vivacious and sparkling girl always carrying her radio everywhere waiting for the perfect night of clear sky to fly away, leave her home, her family and start her new life with new people and learn more about her gifts as a witch. She has her own black cat (obviously it has to be black) named Jiji which it can speak and when that night comes Kiki runs to her room, pack her stuff rapidly and with her mother’s broomstick fly away yearning for new adventures near to the ocean. And that’s when she found the port city of Koriko.

Kiki is that part of us that, maybe, most of us have lost throughout our years. That naïve feeling about we’re going to run across good people always. That thought of there’s no evil in the world and everything is going to be ok. I’m afraid Kiki is now alone in Koriko and she’s going to learn the things on the tough way but there’s much more than evil in this world and that’s why Kiki meets a very sweet pregnant woman named Osono and her husband and in exchange for accommodation, Kiki helps Osono in the bakery and there Kiki opens “Kiki’s delivery service” with her fantastic broomstick.

In Koriko there’s a very interested boy, almost obsessive with aviation and he’d so glad to know her and her broomstick but while Kiki thinks that this boy, Tombo, wants to mock her Kiki won’t see how kind this boy is, however, step by step the loving Tombo’s heart will reveal to her. Everything in here it’s wonderful, its characters which one very different from the other, its backgrounds lushes and full of trees and flowers, Miyazaki loves nature. Koriko itself is a splendours city beside the sea. Another good thing Miyazaki couldn’t leave behind is those aeroplanes he loves in this case, we have an enormous dirigible and a… sort of a bicycle with an airscrew. If you know Miyazaki’s movies, you must be so familiar with his gadgetries.

Another and a very genius character puts on stage is the music. Oh, yes. Music is another character and it tells us the story as well as the other characters in the film. You don’t need any voice in off explaining to you how is everyone feeling, Kiki’s feeling overall because there it is, the music singing you that part so sensitive. You almost can touch those sparkling spots of magic wafting around you all the time.  Miyazaki has too many things that I just not love but they are unique and I haven’t seen them anywhere else.     

It’s a beautiful and sweet story full of lessons for whoever wants to see. It might seem that is a movie just for kids but I assure you that you will see beyond any kid. Miyazaki conceals too many messages in his movies, kind ones and not every child could see them, maybe you could help your child to don’t give up with the problems, to be kind, to be brave and ask for help.