So creative and unrestrained it’s hard to take in. And BEAUTIFUL.
I love the way Ashitaka looks at the world. From the beginning where he looks at the marsh, slowly taking it all in, and throughout the film, at nature, at San, everything. It does a really great job of showing that he is truly looking at the world with eyes unclouded with hate.
I don’t have a lot to say. Absolutely stunning in every possible way.
It's been a while since I saw this so maybe all of my thoughts have been exacerbated over time but it's stuck with me.
My thoughts in short: this movie tries too hard to be scary rather than sticking to the off-putting elements of other versions that make them actually frightening to watch. Additionally, Eggers seems to have little faith that the viewer will be able to interpret the themes from the story, so inserts a lot of elements that…
