Inciting Incident -- Spirited Away

In my opinion, the inciting incident of Spirited Away is the moment when Chihiro first sees the bathhouse and Haku warns her to leave. Before that, the exposition shows Chihiro and her parents as not very likable characters, the parents block Chihiro out and dismiss her as she pouts and whines about moving. Once they enter the spirit realm, the parents begin to eat and Chihiro wanders off to then see the bathhouse. Once Haku tells her to leave, a series of event happen one after another and put Chihiro in an overwhelmed and confused mindset, which helps us identify with her more as the main character. As the sun goes down spirits start to appear, she finds pigs instead of her parents and thinks they have left (not that her parents have turned into pigs, which is what happened), she tries to cross the river only to find its now an ocean, and a boat unloads different kinds of spirits and she becomes heavily overwhelmed. The moment when Haku tells her to leave is the single moment when things start to go south.

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