It’s been ten years since I watched Hayao Miyazaki’s anime again. I was a high school student ten years ago, and I didn’t know the world. At that time, Hayao Miyazaki’s anime was just an anime to me. Now that I have experienced all kinds of human nature, I understand the meaning of Princess Mononoke: nature has given all life what it should have, and human beings who consider themselves higher are constantly taking nature's selfless dedication for greed. The climax of the film starts from greed, and then evolves into all kinds of darkness in human nature (such as jealousy and hatred derived from the pig god's inability to unicorn beasts, the calculation and betrayal of the national teacher, etc.) and the flash points that collide in the darkness (such as male Lord and heroine, the last magic princess), which coincides with the priority given to greed, hatred and ignorance in Buddhism. In Japanese mythology, the Kirin beast is a symbol of auspicious beasts, representing the laws of nature. At the end, he kissed the pig god and turned into an evil god. I understand that the Kirin beast will only absorb the life with resentment, let them rest in peace as soon as possible. Resentment remains in the body, which is why the unicorn beast after the decapitation will become a god of death, the resentment in the body has no master, and it is destroyed uncontrollably, because the unicorn beast is an auspicious beast that sacrifices itself for all living beings. Ironically, this auspicious beast was cut off by Huan Ji, who said that what was more terrifying than elves was human beings. Human beings are inflated by desire, and in the end they forget the root. In the film, this root is the unicorn beast, the source of growth and rest for all things. The master's works always have his own uniqueness. Hayao Miyazaki depicts them delicately, and pines his feelings of wanting to awaken human beings and not forgetting their roots on the male protagonist. With the slightly desolate music, it seems to tell human nature that this may be the case. Eventually the forest grows again, but the forest is no longer the original forest.
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