They Came After The Parents
Even when they took away our toys and made us eat yucky vegetables, we still couldn’t imagine a life without our doting parents. That’s why so many children’s movies pray on our fear of losing the people who brought us into this world and protect us from the hazards in it.
The story of Spirited Away not only turned protagonist Chihiro’s parents into gluttonous pigs but sentenced her to hard child labor in a bathhouse full of haunting people-eating spirits, run by a gigantic-headed witch who steals people’s names in hopes of trapping them as eternal servants. Unfortunately, if anyone asks Chihiro if she was raised by pigs, she won’t be able to say “no.”