"Princess Mononoke", released in 1997, broke the record for the highest box office of Japanese movies at the time, and this record was maintained until "Titanic" was released in the same year. It seems to confirm that great works almost always appear at similar times. "Princess Mononoke" uses slightly cruel brushstrokes to depict the blood flowing into a river of gunpowder smoke between humans and nature. Even if the war ceases and the creatures return, the soil, lakes, forests, and beasts will no longer be the original soil, lakes, and forests. , Spirit Beast.
There is no difference between good and evil, war is simply evil. The fundamental reason for the war was that one party greedily wanted to occupy more resources. In order to survive, all living creatures must do their best to fight one after another inevitable wars. Humans and humans, nature and nature, humans and nature, after the smoke clears, continue to grow savagely, and then have the world's Withered and prospered year by year, life is endless.
"Princess Mononoke" is a very special one of Hayao Miyazaki's works. It is called the most violent work of Hayao Miyazaki, and it is filled with a bloody desolation from beginning to end. From the setting of the story's age, to the character design, to the direction of the painting style, to the selection of the soundtrack, what Mr. Miyazaki showed was no longer the clear innocence, but a solemn sigh. I have been curious about how the old man Miyazaki could have so many magnificent fantasies of non-human fireworks. Now it seems that it is probably because he has already broken through the strange falseness and evil of the world to create the bizarre good and beautiful.
【story】
The story is constructed in the Muromachi era. The Muromachi period in Japan is slightly equal to the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. In the early days of the Muromachi period, Japan split into two regimes, the North and the South, and there were endless battles. In response to the rapid progress in productivity worldwide, Japan's iron smelting, textile and foundry industries also flourished during this period. The growth of human power has rapidly escalated the conflicts between people and the environment.
The actor Asidaka is a handsome boy from the Ezo tribe in the northeast. (PS: The name Ezo tribe is inexplicably delicious.) In order to protect the village, the brave boy shot and killed the evil spirit mountain pig god who broke into the village. However, the wild boar god will leave a curse on Asidaka before his death, eroding his body day after day from his arm until death. So Asidaka rode on his fawn and embarked on a journey to find the antidote.
The world outside the Ezo tribe was full of beatings, smashing, looting and burning. The depressed Asidaka headed south, under the guidance of a bald monk to the forest where the mountain beast god lived. Next to the forest is the city of Dadala, a city that relies on iron smelting. The female leader of the city of Daddala, the Black Hat adult, advocated martial arts, and wanted to use rockets to defeat the mountain beast gods and dog gods in the forest, and obtain the right to use the forest, so that everyone in the city-state could live. When Ashidaka rushed to the forest, Lord Black Hat's troops were at war with the giant dog of the Inu Protoss. The short-haired girl riding on the back of the dog is Princess Mononoke Xiaosang. She is a human abandoned baby who was picked up and raised by the dog god Mona, so she does not consider herself a human being.
Asidaka looked at Xiao Sang from a distance, and the deer banged and banged in her heart, but the girl turned and jumped into the forest. Asidaka rescued the two city residents who had fallen into the water and returned to the city, where they were warmly welcomed by the women in the city. The whole city is operated under the joint efforts of men and women. Women smelt iron in the city, and men go out to cut trees with artillery, presenting a kind of tribal warmth, harmony and strength.
That night, Xiao Sang brought a big dog and attacked the black-hat adult. Xiao Sang was stunned by artillery, and the boy finally had a chance to come forward. He didn't want to fight against the black hat, and didn't want to hurt Xiao Sang, so he took Xiao Sang back to the forest, and he was hit by artillery. Xiao Sang soaked Asidaka in the spring water of the Mountain Beast God, healed Asidaka, but failed to heal his curse.
In order to hunt down the mountain beast god, the samurai troops of the central government's paper umbrella master came to the city of Daddala. In order to protect the forest and gain strength, the wild boar family began to gather in the forest. So a dark battle began, more than half of humans were killed and injured, and the bones of wild boars were like mountains. The boss of the wild boar B began to demonize in despair. When it was about to swallow Xiao Sang, the mountain beast god finally appeared and stopped the demonization of the wild boar.
However, the black hat and bald monk hiding in the grass took the opportunity to get out, and the black hat shot off the head of the mountain beast god. The picture of Killing God is too beautiful to describe in words. The headless mountain beast turns into a blood-red fluorescent giant, and any creature that is touched will lose its life. The green forest instantly turned black and died, and the city of Dadara was burnt to death. Before the mountain beast god destroyed more lives, Asidaka and Xiao Sang finally snatched the mountain beast god's head.
The mountain beast god who had recovered his head no longer took his life. Its transparent huge body disappeared after falling into the city of Daddala. This was the god's final revenge. The vegetation of the forest began to glow with new buds, the life that was taken away was not returned, everything began to be reborn, not resurrected.
After finally washing away the curse, Asidaka decided to settle in Dadala City and help the black hat who lost an arm to rebuild the city. Xiao Sang hated humans forever and returned to the mountains. At least the two finally survived the war and spent a relatively peaceful time after the war together.
[Metaphor of Gunsmoke]
Black Hat has a line: Humans are more terrifying than gods. Similar sentences are not uncommon in Japanese comics. The people of the Paper Umbrella Master were divided into two batches. One group followed the black hat into the forest to kill the gods, and the other group attacked the city of Dadala in turn, trying to nationalize the city. A more powerful organization becomes more unscrupulous when it becomes greedy.
According to Wikipedia, the ironworks "Dadara Castle" that appears in the scene comes from the memories of Hayao Miyazaki when he was a child when he saw the blacksmith's shop while he was going to school. The working conditions of the smithy gave Hayao Miyazaki a longing for the ironmaking profession at that time, which affected Miyazaki when he entered the animation industry, he always carried a sketch depicting the ironmaking scene with him, and he was in the newspaper for another hour. I have seen pictures of melting pots made by the people during the Great Leap Forward in China , which also gave rise to a strong impression. The city shelter datara patients were social outcasts description, it is Hayao Miyazaki in the production of this movie, apart from taking the time to visit is located in the East Village Hill City area, dedicated hosting leprosy patients with the National Tama whole health care facilities garden of Personal experience. At that time, he was impressed by the painful situation but also the joy of being alive, and obtained relevant references from the leprosy database of the sanatorium.
The city of Dadala is a metaphor for the humble but stubborn people living in the sun. Especially the hard-working women in the city are confident and optimistic, and their vitality is as vigorous as weeds. There is no absolute right and wrong here. Riman often washes the ground for villains, sometimes even more touching than decent ones: it's all for survival, so why embarrass each other; since they can only embarrass each other, then no one has done anything wrong. Bar.
Father Miyazaki is a loyal reader of Horita Zene. The most widely disseminated work by Yoshie Horita in the Celestial Kingdom is Time. “This book is narrated in the tone of a Chinese named Chen Yingdi, and is composed in the form of a diary. The background of the whole work is 1937. The tragic Nanjing Massacre created after the Japanese army invaded and occupied Nanjing in December 1988. While describing the Nanjing Massacre truthfully and truthfully, the author also provided people with more thoughts about human nature, war, Japan, China and the world."
Behind the hazy blood of "Princess Mononoke", there is a bit of epic heaviness. After the old man finished this work in 1997, he recuperated for a long time. It is a special work, in the age of ease, it looks like a blunt steel hammer, lightly hitting the itchy back.
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