When I first watched this animation, I thought that the theme was environmental protection or anti-war. After watching it a few times, I found that Nausicaa said something many times: Don't be afraid.
When Xiao Songhu first met and bit Nausicaa's finger, she was not angry, because she knew that Songhu was just out of fear and protected herself by attacking.
When Kushana pointed a gun at herself, Nausicaa also saw that the other party panicked because she couldn't control the situation.
When faced with the unknown, people often feel insecure, and out of animal instinct, they will use bluffing methods to show their strength. As everyone knows, this is a testament to the inner weakness and unease.
So people often fantasize about using violence against violence and anger against anger. Just like the Pejites tried to use the king bug to fight against Dorumecia's army, Kushana tried to resurrect the giant god soldier to fight the king bug, people have tried to destroy the sea of rot with fire for thousands of years...
Such confrontation only brings endless chaos and damage.
What fear brings is a sense of separation, a binary opposition, it must be regarded as "bad", the other party must be eradicated, and the other party must be surrendered to oneself...
And Nausicaa, whether facing the enemy, the sea of rot or the king bug, can see the essence most directly, because she has a pure and fearless heart.
She is brave to be herself, and also allows and helps other people and creatures to survive in their own way, without presupposing that the other party will hurt herself. Even if he was injured, he still wouldn't fight back with anger.
At the end of the film, in the face of the gunfire of the Pejites and the riot of thousands of king insects, Nausicaa did not take a defensive or offensive posture at all, but calmly and magnanimously, as if welcoming. waiting for this moment to come.
"She used her body to quell Wang Zong's anger."
What is stronger than anger is never deeper anger, but the dissolution of anger, which only love can do. The Bible says that there is no fear in love.
Bravely let go of yourself, throw yourself in a desperate bid, transcend, transcend... Above all oppositions and fears, there is a world of unexpected freedom and vastness.
I can't remember the plot of "Kafka on the Shore", only this sentence remains in my mind:
"'Am I qualified to forgive you?'
She nodded repeatedly to my shoulder. 'If anger and fear don't hold you back. '"
......
If anger and fear don't hold us back.
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