Nausicaa.
This is a fantasy world, the world in Hayao Miyazaki's mind. Poisonous forests, giant king worms, humans huddled in the corners of the world, and mysterious ancient technologies, constitute this crumbling and polluted world. It's decadent, it's barren, but it's full of hope.
Because of Nausicaa.
Nausicaa is the name of Princess Paigea in the Greek epic "Odyssey". She is a wise and dreamy beautiful girl who loves the lyre and songs more than worldly happiness, and has rejected many marriage proposals from princes and princes. One day, she met Odysseus (the protagonist of "Odyssey"), who was covered in blood and drifted to the coast, but was not afraid at all, and rescued him home and took care of his injuries by herself. Only through the songs Odysseus improvised, she knew his heart. Nausicaa's parents, worried that she would fall in love with Odysseus, sent Odysseus on a long voyage before he fully recovered. Nausicaa stood on the coast and watched Odysseus' sailboat gradually disappear into the distance... According to legend, she never married, but picked up the violin and walked from court to court, singing Odyssey constantly. Desseus and his seafaring saga, became the first female bard in history.
Miyazaki borrowed this name, is it also implying the fate of the protagonist of his work?
In "Nausicaa", Nausicaa is the daughter of the patriarch of the Valley of the Wind, a pilot who can control the wind, the only human friend of the king bug, an explorer who entered the forest of death, and the judge of Omar." Mother", a warrior who fought against the Holy Emperor for freedom.
She is like the sun, wherever she goes, she brings light and hope. Tenacious, unyielding, tenacious, and even a little stubborn, she spreads her beliefs - freedom, equality, and harmony all the time. Whether it is a human being, a king bug, or even a murder weapon left over from ancient times, they are all equal to each other, and they can live together harmoniously. I think this is Miyazaki's dream.
Nausicaa is not pretty. This is Miyazaki's consistent style of painting - the characters in his paintings never attract the viewer's attention with their beautiful faces, but with their personalities, their words and deeds to grab the reader's heart - unconsciously , you have been deeply attracted to them, and you can't help but pay attention to their fate.
Where did Nausicaa attract me?
When she was flying a straight-wing plane like a wind elf freely and happily in the sky, with her hair blowing in the wind, I clearly saw a healthy, optimistic and confident girl.
When she sacrificed her own life in order to protect the king bug, but also to prevent the conflict between the king bug and the human beings, the commoner clothed in the blue blood of the king bug, the weak figure that fainted and fell to the ground made me see another A strong, indomitable woman.
She wept as she caressed the deeply decomposed facial skeleton of Inquisitor Omar, who was still calling her softly, "Mama" just before she died, she wept, crystal tears rolling down her cheeks. The cheeks dripped directly into my heart, she was only 16 years old, but she was clearly a mother who lost her dearest child.
This is Nausicaa! No longer a little girl chasing violins and music, no longer a bard chanting legends, no longer just a legend, but a living person, a girl who dares to love and hate, Hayao Miyazaki's The pen brought her to life, and she was standing right in front of me, on the straight-wing plane, wearing goggles, holding the respirator tightly in her hand, and Dido (note 2) fluttered its long tail and quietly crouched over her On his shoulders, under the plane stood a giant king worm, its countless compound eyes flashing with the light of wisdom, and in the distance, the spore-formed forest stretched to the end of the horizon.
She laughed, flew, and embraced the world.
I love Nausicaa.
——Note
1: This article is based on the "Nausicaa" comics, and its narrative content is slightly different from the "Nausicaa" animation.
Note 2: Fox squirrel.
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