Nausicaa- 1st week

This was my first time watching this movie and I was so delighted with it. It was beautiful. It was nicely made, especially the poisonous jungle (speaking about James Cameron ripping off the Jungle look :-/) and the nature in general. Just like Napier said in her book, anime is a run away from reality, to some different imaginary world. Miyazaki did exactly that. The viewer was put into a new world with a lot of mysterious animals and plants, but what was very striking was that the world could actually happen. Just like in the film, humans have polluted the earth and the film's post- apocalypse atmosphere might actually happen in reality. Miyazaki definitely wanted to show the nature and how pollution is bad. He wanted the viewers to ask themselves is it really worth it to be polluting the earth and then live in the garbage and poisonous atmosphere how ours is becoming with more and more human made dirt and smoke. Also Miyazaki is pointing out that the humans are just fighting and think that it will solve everything, but instead they should be working to save the earth and it's natural resources. In the film, just like in real life, the humans are obsessed with leadership, but wars will not help anyone. Everyone should be like Nausicaa, kind leaders that care about other people and living creatures n earth and not care for the material goods. This was such a beautiful inspiring story and I am looking forward to seeing it again. I will be concentrating more on the animation this time and the music, and not so much on the story, because I want to be able to analyze the film's atmosphere and character's looks with their personalities, and colors they are portrayed in.