Princess Mononoke

I remember watching Princess Mononoke when I as a little girl. I thought it was going to be another animated cartoon, because I didn’t have a lot of contact with anime at that time. I did not expect such beautiful, deep animation and such a mind-striking story. This movie is different from earlier Miyazaki’s films in an animation technique. I thought it had more details, especially the characters and the forest look. The forest is of course very much like the one in Nausicaa, so powerful and mysterious. The difference is that this forest is good, filled with wild spirits. I am so astonished by the world Miyazaki created here. He made up so many characters and animals and the connections between them are so complex. It is amazing to me how Miyazaki creates a whole new world with every each one of his movies. In this film, just like in most of the Miyazaki’s films there is a battle between the nature and the technology. The animals are portrayed as ghosts of the forest and the humans are the ones ruining the nature by their selfishness and the will to destroy the forest for the fuel. I don’t think it is explained of why the fuel and iron is needed, or it is explained briefly. There is not even the need to explain it because the main point here is that, again just like in most of Miyazaki’s movies, there is a fight between the humans and the nature. The ending of the film is very similar to a lot of previous Miyazaki’s films. The nature wins and destroys the evil human products and the humans regret their destruction of the nature. As in Castle of the Sky, the surviving humans promise they are not going to harm the nature any more and they will live in symbiosis with it.