The most impressive scene in the film is near the end, where the tanukis perform their final illusion in front of humans for their final victory. The once lush green forest, the village Hetian with the traffic of Qianmo has reappeared in front of us. A human woman saw that the old woman working in the field was the same as her deceased mother, and ran away without thinking whether it was true or not. This scene is heartwarming. In the end, the illusion that the civet cats themselves became, even made themselves mistaken for the truth, and flew towards the phantom. It can be seen that the civet cat is really just an animal. No matter how high-level illusions they master, they cannot possess the rationality of human beings, and this is the reason why they cannot escape the misfortune of failure.
In addition to the theme of protecting the environment, the film actually raised the issue of how to protect traditional culture. The way of living in harmony with nature in traditional culture, especially the attitude of reverence for nature is a dark line in the film. That is to say, the reminiscence and fascination of Japanese traditional culture, especially Japanese gods and monsters, are also the eternal complex of Hayao Miyazaki himself. In particular, the section of the ghost parade in the film covers almost all the classic characters and classic stories in Japanese traditional culture, which is interesting and memorable. Among them, the scene of "Fox getting married" is exactly the same as that depicted in the first story in Akira Kurosawa's "Dream" that I had seen before, which really made me excited.
Besides, for some reason, the civet cat at the end of the film, who had to use the illusion of disguise to survive and become a human being, reminded me of a child who had to work hard to adapt to the adult society...
hide his tail and put on a mask , to hide the pure and innocent nature... It is the helplessness of survival, and it is also the law of nature's survival of the fittest.
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