despair

Chelsea 2022-01-25 08:02:21

Eleven years after "Nausicaa" and "Castle in the Sky", Hayao Miyazaki has returned to the main proposition of man and nature and shot the most ambitious and ambitious work to date, "Princess Mononoke".

Revisiting the old topic is not exactly the old meaning. In this two-hour animated feature film, in addition to the confrontation between man and nature, the perspective extends into the conflict between different creatures in nature, the killing and hatred between human beings, and a group of people with others and with themselves. The clashes and discord. After more than ten years of thinking, with the rapid development of contemporary technology, Hayao Miyazaki's field of thought has expanded, and his vision has become sharper and cruel.

Asuka is the continuation of Nausica’s image. He goes to great lengths to run between man and beast, human society, looking for a way of reconciliation between man and nature, things and things, and the entire life of human beings. Maybe he can stop the one that is about to become The White Pig God of Cthulhu, maybe he can save the villagers who have suffered annihilation, maybe he can heal his wounds, maybe he can sacrifice himself to get the Qilin God forgiveness, but he can really eliminate the vitality in the human heart than the forest Does the tree spirit still have the fire of stubborn desire? Really like the end of the film, after the sea, can the mulberry field be restored to greenness, and the sky blue to transparent tranquility?

When the wounded and bleeding female head said, "We have done it from the beginning", who can be sure that she will not be plundering and killing but a paradise on earth where all things will be prosperous?

The dripping blood at the corner of Princess Mononoke’s mouth, who finally refused to return to the world, made me seem to hear an unknown sneer, making me chill, and the confidence that Hayao Miyazaki tried to build in the film was so vulnerable: Compared to the creatures in all directions, human beings, what can you do with human beings?

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Extended Reading
  • Rowena 2022-03-20 09:01:14

    8.5/10 The unconventional point of "You" lies in the set of eternal contradictions it puts forward: Does survival mean that God must be killed? Is there a possibility of "live together" between man and nature, between man and man? The director used Ashitaka's mouth to express his ambiguous attitude when dealing with the issue: Ashitaka is always fighting a lonely battle. He refuses to yield to the simple values ​​of any party, but almost stupidly believes in the practical possibility of peaceful coexistence; In other words, he maintains a helpless attitude about how to adjust the contradiction that is almost impossible to achieve reconciliation-"to live" is not a life compliment full of optimism; on the contrary, it is a kind of praise. Prays full of lament and confusion-we can only live, we can only wait patiently, using time to wash away all sins and curses, looking forward to someday this eternal problem can be solved, or usher in an unsolvable one The end of the world—By then, Tokyo has already been submerged by floods, and the annihilation of mankind is nothing but a fever on the earth.

  • Scot 2022-03-17 09:01:02

    Magic Ji's last sentence: "Let's start again and rebuild a beautiful home together." It is not a taste that makes people difficult to distinguish. Does rebuilding a beautiful home mean continuing to erode and plunder nature? Human beings will not stop pursuing "good happiness and development", so this is really an unsolvable question. I think of someone saying, “Don’t talk about protecting the earth. The earth has gone through so many years and has never seen any disaster. It is human beings who want to save themselves, and it is human beings who want to extinct.” Human beings who pursue survival instinct are pursuing the so-called "happy development." At the same time, can we try to slow down the pace of human extinction?

Princess Mononoke quotes

  • Lady Eboshi: What exactly are you here for?

    Prince Ashitaka: To see with eyes unclouded by hate.

  • Moro: Ah, you're awake. I was hoping you'd cry out in your sleep, then I would have bitten your head off to silence you.