"No one really explains the cat bus [in My Neighbor Totoro] or [why things happen] in Spirited Away."
"There is a meta deep world explanation, but you don't go into a Miyazaki world trying to get the sci-fi answers to every reason why something that shouldn't happen happens and it's fantastic."
"Wow, that's such a high compliment. Because we were like, 'Could we do that? Could we bring that world?'"
"There's a real Asian-ness to that slippage between the fantastic and human emotion that I think is different, but proven to be universal."
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey follows David and Sarah as unexplained magic doors transport them into pivotal moments of their lives. The film deliberately avoids providing scientific or narrative explanations for the phenomenon, choosing instead to center mood, memory, and emotional truth. The movie draws clear inspiration from anime filmmakers such as Hayao Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai, adopting a magical-realist style that blends the fantastic with human feeling. The narrative traces a strange odyssey through each other's memories after meeting at a wedding, emphasizing atmosphere and feeling rather than plot mechanics.
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