The animation adopts a seemingly neutral perspective, using the male protagonist outside the whirlpool as the narrator, through an inexplicable disaster, binding the male protagonist and the audience together, and taking the male protagonist as the point of view to lead the audience on a puzzle-solving journey. This successfully cuts into the story.
After the actor started the journey, Hayao Miyazaki methodically introduced the various conditions of the world: the predation of samurai, the poverty of the hungry, the pioneers, and the princess Mononoke clan... For the actor who originally lived in a paradise, the world is more The simple hometown is bigger and more complicated at the same time. So he must take a "clear and simple" perspective to recognize the world and understand right and wrong.
Out of the consideration of first suppressing and then rising, the actor first contacted the forest pioneers and met the strong woman Magic Ji. In fact, Magic Ji does have a strong personality charm, courage, equality, and vision. Isn't this a perfect man from a human perspective? The generation of this impression conforms to the thinking of the audience, and it is also the position of most human beings on environmental protection issues: we are all for the development of mankind.
Facing this kind of human supremacist in real life, as well as the manga with a strong personality in the animation, what Miyazaki has to do is to break this inherent position and thinking, and let the hero and the audience go. Into the position of nature. So under this kind of thinking, the actor rescued Princess Mononoke and entered the forest, saw the magical power of nature, and gave rise to the humble and worship of nature by mankind.
Just as the male protagonist and the audience were thinking about right and wrong, the director began to arrange the story to reach its climax, allowing the plan of human destruction to begin. If the first half of the confrontation between mankind and nature just stayed at the stage of peaceful conflict, then the current dramatic conflict has begun to evolve towards the extreme life and death. And because human beings are provocateurs and strong warriors at the same time, the male protagonist and the audience are completely biased towards nature from a vacillating standpoint. So the audience followed the male protagonist and started to prevent this disaster from the standpoint of nature.
Of course, during the climax, the animation continuously shows the intrigue and selfishness of human beings, and at the same time shows the situation of nature being mutilated in comparison, which further makes the male protagonist and the audience hate the destructive behavior of human beings. So under this unavoidable extreme conflict, an epic to defend nature begins, and the audience gradually enters an emotional climax. Here, the audience unknowingly becomes a supporter of nature, and blasts the evil deeds of mankind.
I have to admire Hayao Miyazaki’s control, the explanation of the various forces, the arrangement of the story angle, and the foreshadowing of emotions are all done perfectly. He has wrapped his position with an epic structure and exported his own values. This approach has become a classic case, such as the "Avatar" that was tried more than a decade later.
Of course, the film position does not talk about right or wrong. Although Miyazaki has his own position, his expression is commendable.
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