The Boy and The Heron / Next Goal Wins

Last week I went and saw the latest Studio Ghibli movie, The Boy and the Heron which was exactly what you'd expect from them - a beautiful anime with a very trippy and confusing plot. A boy loses his mother in a fire during WWII and a few years later moves to the countryside with his dad to live with his aunt who is now his step-mother and carrying a future sibling. A magical heron/spirit/man tells him that his mother is still alive and off he goes on an weird adventure full of magic and wonder to rescue his her.

Today I saw Next Goal Wins, which was very funny and reminded me a lot of the first movie I ever saw in the cinema as an independent person - Cool Running. This movie is based on the true story of the American Samoa internal football team. A team who probably still retain the biggest loss in football history - 31 to nil - in a Worldcup qualify many years ago.