We watched Princess Mononoke, an anime by Hayao Miyazaki. I think this is the third time I've seen this. It's really great. I like the imagery and the vistas. the night scene with the night walker was cool. I like the green little forest spirit that rattled their heads.
The villians were multi-dimensional. They're not type-cast. They're very human. They make mistakes, they do wrong, but they repent, they start all over again, they're unpredictable.
The way women were portrayed in this movie was reminiscent of Amelia Lanyer's "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women."
There's a lot of symbolism in this movie (western and eastern thinking). I don't know if the movie presented a slant against either west or east because you can argue that foreign power destroyed the "forest" but at the same time a "foreigner" helped saved it. Could the blame be attributed to the locals? quite possibly, maybe perhaps it's traditions versus modernization, or inner versus outer conflict.
The animation in this movie rocks!
Posted by Michael Diezmos at October 24, 2005 10:01 PMCool, Mike. That's my girlfriend's favorite anime. I still haven't seen it yet, though. ::Sigh::
Posted by: ChrisU at October 25, 2005 5:03 AMHey Mike, for once I'm not lurking, haha. Anyways, I haven't seen that anime yet, I'll have to check it out. I just have to say that I love anime, it rocks my socks. My favorite is Inuyasha (a series).
Posted by: Sue at October 25, 2005 3:19 PMChris- definitely watch it, great combo of art and writing
Sue- you won't be disappointed in this one, you might get sad because once you see it and you ended up liking it, you'll be sad in the fact that there's no sequel...also Naruto (series) is also cool, my friend introduced me to it and I love the characters , plot line is "so so", I like the portrayal of the characters! :)
Posted by: Mike at October 26, 2005 12:02 AM