Miyazaki seems to like setting up plots where multiple forces compete, maybe this can make the animation plot look richer. "Nausicaa" is naturally no exception, depicting multiple forces like "City in the Sky" and "Princess Mononoke". But the heroine of "Nausicaa" is so dazzling that the other forces represented by Hayao Miyazaki have become the background of the heroine. Let me ask the audience, are you more familiar with the other princess (what's the name?) of "Nausicaa"? Or are you more familiar with the magic princess of "Princess Mononoke"? This goes without saying. Therefore, the multi-power competition created by Hayao Miyazaki did not play a big role.
Of course, "Nausicaa" has done a very good job in creating the atmosphere of the apocalypse. From the desolate and deadly depiction at the beginning of the film, to the large sections of the desert landscape in the film, to the sudden shrill soundtrack, all of them have successfully expressed the atmosphere of depression and panic. Against such a background of oppression and despair, by revealing the secret of purifying the earth by the sea of rot, the original darkness will be transformed into new light and new hope. This is undoubtedly the best setting in the work, and it is also the foundation of the theme.
However, "Nausicaa" did not do a good enough job of promoting the thematic values, and it was too blunt. Anyway, it was an attitude of "love and tolerance will definitely save the world, you must believe me". In such an attitude, the blatant promotion of the work's values may be offensive to the audience. In contrast, the seemingly neutral stance of "Princess Mononoke" won the audience's appreciation.
In the case of this kind of blunt value output, the radiant heroine in the work has gradually become the incarnation of the "Virgin", which makes some audiences feel hypocritical and not pleasing to the eye. The biggest failure is that the work carries out the heroine's "motherhood" road to the end, and in order to make the story have a happy ending, it does not hesitate to make the heroine crazy. "Princess Mononoke" also gained a new life after a heavy price, and the process is shocking and convincing; "Nausicaa" can instantly soothe countless mad king bugs with just the heroine's loyalty and courage? In fact, "Nausicaa" does this, so even if the story has a happy ending, the exaggerated, false and incredible process will only make the audience feel that the ending is unfinished, because it is too fake. It is estimated that this is also the reason why Miyazaki put the work to a hasty end, after all, it is really hard to see.
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