After many years, when I look for this film again, the word "shock" is still indescribable - Hayao Miyazaki's film has successfully stretched humanistic feelings to a very grand dimension.
I watched it when I was a child, and at that time I only thought the picture was very good (the visual effects were shocking) and the storyline was fascinating. When I rewatch it now, I realize that this is not just an environmental film, but a hymn celebrating the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. This anime constructs a unique worldview, and there are many contents and details to be laid out in this worldview, but Hayao Miyazaki explained it quickly through ingenious narration, and successfully advanced the plot at a speed without delay. And the layout of this animation is really big, and it may be difficult for ordinary directors to control it well, but Hayao Miyazaki can not only make it detailed, but also "universalize" this big layout. The description of the lofty values implanted in the hearts of people.
After reading it, I thought of Tagore's poem "When a person is most humble, he is the closest to the earth". Only when people realize their insignificance and realize that they cannot and cannot do everything is the time when they truly embody human wisdom.
In the anime, the king bugs are really disgusting, but when they are not angry, they are gentle enough to make you have pleasant dreams, and their organs are actually excellent materials. Maybe they are the mother of the earth, the ecosystem of the earth is destroyed, and the king insect will maintain the balance between the earth and all things. The fire giant may symbolize the "nuclear weapons" in reality, and its power is terrifying, but even so, in front of the earth, it is still insignificant, and it is even just that humans destroy themselves and destroy themselves by their own greed.
Then at the end, in fact, I don't think it's an unfinished ending. It doesn't matter if the heroine is resurrected or not, because the plot has already unfolded perfectly, and the waterway has been completed. Non-resurrection also has its own rationality, and there is no lack of infectious and shocking power. But what attracts me most about this ending is that in general, we might imagine that the king bug will wipe out the villain, after all, they did the wrong thing. But in fact it didn't. In the end, both the good and the bad stayed, and the bad reconciled with nature unharmed. This makes me feel a kind of "compassion", a rare "big love".
Supplement: Today, when I think of the climax of the movie, facing the gunfire of the battleship, the heroine stands upright and spreads out her hands. A sentence suddenly popped into my mind: Even if you hurt me, I will still treat you happily.
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