Do you know how hard it is to find quality entertainment to share with your child that isn’t based around standard notions of conflict? Just being able to show him something that’s exciting without ever having a fight scene in it is almost impossible. And yet, Miyazaki makes it look easy. There are harrowing, thrilling sequences here, and Toshi frequently got tense or anxious, completely involved in the film, but it’s not because of some dumb fistfight or some tired showdown. Instead, it’s because he invested in the characters, and he was worried for them as they faced these perils. But there’s nothing in it where someone has to fight someone else to “win” the movie, and it saddens me that something so simple seems almost revolutionary.
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