Initial Thoughts on Suzume
Warning: This blog post contains spoilers for Suzume . Man, what a night it's been! As I write this, it is around midnight EST. Usually at this time I'm in bed asleep, but given how much I liked Your Name and Weathering With You , I just had to catch Makoto Shinkai's newest film on opening night. And of course while my memory of the film is still fresh, I wanted to share some initial thoughts on it. Hence, here I am still wide awake and writing. So, there are two parts of Suzume that I want to discuss. The first part is the way the dark energies arising from deep within the land were handled. Land is often used as a metaphor for the human being, since just as land has many layers, every human being also has many layers. In some spiritual traditions, there are myths about great adepts being buried deep within the land. For example, Christian Rosenkreuz is said to be buried deep within the land, as is Merlin. These adepts represent our true divine Self which is