even if destiny exists

Clarissa 2022-11-03 02:34:48


ICA, London.

I saw the wind blowing from the same place. That movie baffled me. I was irritably unwilling to understand the will of the protagonist, and my mind was full of war, and the word Japan was viciously grasped. However, if it really reminds me of the movie itself, I can only think of one scene: the train speeding, the strong wind blowing through the window blew the manuscript down, the boy continued to concentrate on drawing without raising his head, his face was mottled with tears.

[He (Miyazaki) couldn't draw the Zero. ] The narrator said, [Everyone went crazy. Zero fighter, isn't it just like drawing it? But he was only thinking about the dream, in which the plane looked the way it should fly by itself. How to draw this? How could someone else draw it for him, if it only existed in his heart? ] He sat at the table, or stood on the roof looking at the blue sky, struggling and troubled. Just because it has to be that way. It must be like in a dream.

He was so troubled by such things that I couldn't stop crying. How many people in this world let themselves be trapped in such troubles? And he will.

He didn't know how the story was going to end. When painting Spirited Away, he didn't know how to end it. "It is not fate that finds the ending, but the will of the characters. Even if fate does exist."

So Erlang lived. Because Miyazaki changed the ending. In the last scene, Nahoko stood in the field and muttered no longer "come", but "live".

I don't understand "the wind is up", I don't understand yet. Maybe need to look and think more, but I don't blame it so much.

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The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness quotes

  • Narrator (Mami Sunada): After the conference, I asked what he'd written on that paper he had. He showed it to me. It was his official retirement statement. This was the first sentence: "I hope to work for ten more years."

  • Hayao Miyazaki: [Speaking of a political campaign van driving by] It was the 21st Century revealing itself. I'm a 20th Century man, I don't want to deal with the 21st.