Studio Ghibli season on Film 4

Over the years, movies produced by studio Ghibli continue to keep popping up on Film 4, including films such as Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Ponyo, Kiki's Delivery Service and many more.

I'm not bashing Ghibli films in any way, lets get that clear. I love the animated films they've produced, the animation is realistic, detailed and captures the 'essence' of the characters, the backgrounds are intricately designed and in many of the films the camera angles and movements are so fluid it could almost have been shot in live action.

Even 'Tales of Earthsea', which didn't exactley have the best of plots (it followed a general storyline, but was full of unneccessary twists that would mislead the audience, and seemed unable to really communicate the characters individual stories to the audience in a way that made you really -like- them) was stunning to look at, and is a film I'd definately recommend for others to see purely so they can better understand what I mean when trying to describe how the other Ghibli movies are so amazing.

Kiki's delivery service: So endearing!

One thing I love about Ghibli films is that regardless of whether they're 'my thing' or not, they still have the ability to make me sit still and actually watch them the entire way through. I'm mostly drawn to fantasy adventure as a genre for my 2D animated films, as I feel the medium really helps to give an idea of the 'world' each storyline is based in, without making you pause and think 'this wouldn't -really- work in the real world'.
To summarise, I feel it helps create the 'suspension of disbelief'. This is what I feel most Ghibli films achieve.

Kiki's Delivery Service is a great movie to relate to, while it seems to primarily be about a young witch establishing herself,  I found myself relating to Kiki on many more levels, the whole witch thing was just a fact to accept the real experience was about this girl setting out into the world by herself and how she learns to become a young woman. She faces hardships yet eventually overcomes them, becoming a stronger, kinder individual.

I'll probably add more to this as the Ghibli season goes on, but I seriously recommend watching the rest of the Ghibli collection, the studio has created an art form that I feel can't be replicated.