![]() ![]() It’s a bright and gentle song for piano and strings, almost childlike in its purity, and it repeats at key moments in this film about a boy, Mahito, who loses his mother in a hospital fire and enters an enchanted tower in the country with the quixotic hope of finding her again. Joe Hisaishi, the veteran composer of every Miyazaki feature since 1984, responded to that original name and gave his theme the English title “Ask Me Why.” Through a translator, Hisaishi said he did that “to show that we’re constantly asking ourselves questions and asking ourselves the meanings of things.” The hand-drawn masterwork from the 82-year-old animation giant spills over with beautiful and heart-aching questions. “How Do You Live?” was (regrettably) renamed “The Boy and the Heron” for English audiences, but no matter. The musical theme for Hayao Miyazaki’s new, and likely final, film is a question - just like the film’s original Japanese title. ![]()
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