Level  4 / Post 3: Movies (Best Movie / Best Director / Best Genre)

The Walking Castle is a Japanese animated film created by Studio Ghibli and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. 

This movie was one of the first movies I watched from Studio Ghibli and I remember watching it when I was very little at my grandparents' house. They would always show me the best movies and we would enjoy them together. 

I didn't remember the name of this movie until I was 13 years old when a drawing/graphic design teacher recommended me to make a drawing of it. It wasn't until then that I watched it again and it fascinated me just as it did when I was younger.

What I always liked is what happened with the character of Sophie, who was a young girl who worked in a hat shop.

She turns out to be a victim of the Witch of the Paramo who curses her and makes her look like an old woman. You can see in the movie many changes in her. At the beginning she is a very structured person who lacks a sense of adventure and spontaneity, she's insecure and keeps most of her thoughts to herself. She moved away from what she really wanted, so even before being bewitched Sophie was already resigned to live as an old woman despite being a child, so she aged not by the spell but by her way of thinking. However, when she begins to defend herself and others, Sophie's age also began to change. When she accepts who she really is, she's finally able to break her curse.